Issue #1: Libby’s still officially AWOL from Fire tablets Getting Libby on the Fire will require approval from Amazon. Japan’s Rakuten conglomerate bought OverDrive three years ago for a whopping $410 million in cash (the official name is Rakuten OverDrive), so the wherewithal is there. For months, however, to no avail so far, I’ve been asking OverDrive to fix the omissions listed below. Just the Fire omission alone could be costing Libby many thousands of users. Simply as a booster of ebooks for libraries, I’m glad to see OverDrive’s digital book business growing, but that’s no excuse for the smugness-at least about the non-Amazon issues-when clearly the resources exist. Your yourself can write changes suggested here would be good for OverDrive itself, not just libraries, mass literacy and library-inspired book sales. I hope that the American Library Association will care as well. Whether you’re a librarian or a patron, please speak up to your local librarians and tell them to contact both OverDrive and Amazon.
But at least OverDrive can control the copies distributed and enjoy more leverage with Amazon. If that won’t work, then OverDrive should allow direct downloads of Libby from -for Fire users-even though less tech-savvy people may be challenged. But ideally OverDrive will try harder to turn Amazon around. It’s high time that OverDrive- “the leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide”-filled in the gaps.Īmazon’s stubborness is almost surely the biggest barrier in the case of the Fire. And for now, the notes and volume control features aren’t “on our roadmap.” OverDrive has “nothing new to report” on the Fire, according to spokesman David Burleigh. My thanks!īut Libby still cannot (1) run officially on the popular and affordable Amazon Fire tablets, (2) export notes through email or otherwise or (3) let you press a volume control button on your phone to move on to the next page or return to the previous one. The bold option is a must for people like me who suffer contrast-sensitivity issues.
I myself appreciated OverDrive’s belated addition of all-text bolding after heartfelt pleas appeared on TeleRead and Facebook. In some places here in the States-I don’t know about outside the U.S.-you can even use Libby to sign up for an instant library card. Libby, the ereading app from OverDrive, is a nice, easy way to find and read library books.
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