First, I refuse to download their app as I see no benefit or utility for me. I only use the web based online version, but these comments hold true across all platforms.* I assume for their convenience they optimized the Libby design for display via their app, or, in a pinch, online via a phone screen. The online version as displayed on a laptop or PC is full of wasted white space, repetitive and useless links, fewer items per line, visually difficult to scan. Then you scroll and scroll and scroll down...hoping to see something interesting.* Then I can't find decent reading material! Normally I browse library content, looking for something interesting. That's how I found a number of enjoyable authors....Louise Penny, Donna Leon, Ruth Downie... On Overdrive I checked frequently to immediately view the general collection books as they popped up, whether currently available or not and across all subjects and types. It seems most of what Libby displays are crummy romance novels. Certainly Overdrive didn't seem to display this much drek. Is there some algorithm at work? Does Libby force this mix of product on the libraries or is this actually what my library is chosing?* As to the frequent complaint about audiobook streaming requirement...it was always annoying and glitchy. But I do understand why it was done, so we could not steal copies of audiobooks. Is this some plan to make libraries so worthless we will stop using them? I actually dread the day I will stop accessing my library's content because Libby has made it so inconvenient. The dumbing down of the American public at work.
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