10 Libby Tips & Hacks For Using This Book App

0:00 welcome back to Never Enough novels today I am so excited to share my top 10 tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Libby app Libby is my all-time favorite bookish app I use it every single day to either listen to audiobooks or download ebooks onto my Kindle if you haven't heard of it before Libby is an app that works with your local library to give you access to a huge catalog of ebooks audiobooks and magazines through the app you can either download ebooks onto your Kindle or you can read ebooks like directly on the app or you can listen to audio books as well or browse through tons and tons of magazine issues if you're not sure if you're a library works with Libby you can just like go on their website or call them or ask them in person I found that most libraries not all work with

0:45 Libby but if they're not Libby then they're usually some other type of ebook or audiobook app like hoopla or Cloud Library but since Libby is probably one of the most popular apps and I found it is available at most libraries I wanted to share my 10 trick for getting the most out of the Libby app up first is the ability to add more than one library card to your Libby app so if you've signed up you know that part of the process is adding your library card number and either like a pin or a passcode so that it connects your library to the Libby app and gives you access to your library's selection of ebooks and audiobooks so the catalog changes depending on each person's library and what the library chooses to include on the app so if you can add more than one library card then you have access to a a bigger number of books and

1:32 one of the problems that I run into is I run out of hold slots so like my current Library only gives me six books that I can put on hold at any given time but my TBR list and books that I want to read is often a lot longer than that so I now have three library cards on my Libby app which gives me access to a ton more hold slots if you're wondering you know how do I get another library card there are a couple different options I've heard some people that have like their husbands or Partners or kids sign up for for a library card so that they can use their library card number or I found that bigger cities in some of the states often allow any residents within that state to get a library card for free so for example Philadelphia allows anyone in Pennsylvania to apply for a library card online and get access to like a

2:18 library card number and a PIN number so if you live in the state of Pennsylvania you can go to the Free Library of Philadelphia's website sign up for a library card and then add that library card to Libby as well I know this is pretty similar for a lot of different states so check out some cities like around you or maybe like the biggest city or the capital city in your state just to see on their libraryies website if they work with Libby and if they allow anyone to get access to a library card and once you do have another card number or two that you want to add it's a very simple process in your Libby app you would just simply click on like the menu in the middle which is the three lines click on ADD library then you would search for the new library that you have a card for or if it's the same one then you can add a second card number M to that Library sign in with your card and just complete the steps

3:03 now you can use both cards or multiple cards simultaneously my second tip is to extend the checkout date so often the default checkout time period is 14 days but sometimes you might need longer than that to finish reading a book or finish an audio book so before you check out the book you might have the option to switch it to 21 days I've heard this isn't available for every single library but it seems that most from people that I've worked with have the option to switch to 21 days so whenever you get a notice or whenever you go to borrow a new book you will see that the default checkout period let's say is 14 days and you can click on the number 14 or whatever it is seven and you'll see a drop- down list then which gives you an option for how long you want the checkout period to be so within that

3:49 drop- down list if you see 21 days you can switch it to that and then you'll have the book available to you for 21 days my next tip is sort of similar so if you're running into problems with not being able to finish the book before it's returned particularly for ebooks if you're reading the ebook on your Kindle you can put your Kindle on airplane mode and this will prevent the book from being returned to the library so that you are able to read it on your Kindle as long as your Kindle stays within airplane mode so the way this works is that the book will be like electronically returned to the library so the next person in line or whoever might want that book will still be able to get a copy but the like physical copy is still downloaded on your k Kindle so as long as it doesn't connect to Wi-Fi or to like the internet then your copy

4:35 will remain on your Kindle as long as you stay offline so this can be very helpful if you have a couple of books that come in at the same time or if you're just not able to finish a book in time as you're reading it then you can just turn on airplane mode and for however long you need to finish the book you'll be able to access the text my next tip is purely for fun and it involves the exploding flower bouquet if you haven't heard of this this is a little symbol that you'll get whenever you return a book early so whenever you have the book checked out to you and you see it on your shelf if you're done with the book you'll see there's an option to return early if you hit that button and go through the steps a little flower bouquet Emoji will show up on your screen and most people just see that and kind of exit out but if you tap the

5:21 flower bouquet Emoji it will explode into a shower of flowers all over your screen so again this is purely for fun it's kind of something that liby insiders know and talk about and not many people are necessarily aware of I mean it has no other purpose than strictly to see a bunch of flowers like floating across your screen but I think it's just a fun little extra thing they do for people who return the books early as a reminder if you do return the book early when you're done with it that ensures that it will get to the next person in line even faster or will make it available to someone else who might want to read the book so it's always just kind of a nice thing to do so that more people can read these books if you do often put books on hold you may know that it always seems like all of your books become available at the same time

6:08 it's like there's just a cluster of books that are suddenly available and now you feel like you have to read them all at once fear not there is an option to delay your hold without going back to the very back of the line so whenever you get the notice that your book is now available instead of hitting borrow you should see a button called deliver later deliver later allows you to delay the checkout of your book while holding your place in line so when you click that deliver later button you'll see a sliding bar on the bottom that typically is set to seven days but you can make it like 2 days or up to 10 days something like that that will allow you to choose how long until the book becomes available again so let's say you select the common seven days after 7 days you will get the next available copy of the

6:55 book so this just gives you a little bit extra time to decide when you want to check out the book so you don't feel like you have to check them out all at once as soon as they become available as a frequent liby user and I know there's many other people in the book community that do this too deliver later is both our savior and our Nemesis because I end up delivering later on so many different books and sometimes the same book will get deliver lered like 10 or 15 times before I'm ready to read it I know this is a common problem with mood readers because we put a book on hold when we're very excited to read it and then by the time it Bec becomes available we aren't necessarily in the mood to read that particular book so if you are a mood reader like me this will be a fantastic option for you because you can keep your

7:40 place in line without necessarily having to read the book right at that moment if you're often looking to find new books on Libby this next tip will be very helpful you can use an option called Deep search to find books that aren't necessarily in your libraries catalog so whenever you're going through your normal search process you click on the search bar and type in the title of a book you may notice that a certain title whether it's a new title or one that your library just doesn't have available doesn't pop up in the search results or you may get books that are similar but not exactly what you're looking for if you scroll all the way down through the search results you'll see a button on the bottom called Deep search Once you click that button it will take you to the Deep search catalog which basically has every book in existence and you will be able to click I think it's notify so

8:26 that whenever a copy of that book becomes available in your libraries catalog specifically then you will get a notice so that you can put it on hold I know a lot of people use this deep search trick for new books that haven't been published yet so like Onyx storm is going to be released in January your library doesn't have a copy yet because it's not officially published but it still exists out there and let's say you want to be notified that you can be put in line for a hold as soon as your library gets that copy then you can use this deep search button to get a notification another tip that most people don't know about is using tags to help organize your books on Libby this isn't a trick that I use very often but I know others who have created like very detailed tags on Libby so they can keep

9:11 track of books that they want to read so you will find the tag symbol on the bottom right and that will take you to the tags tab within Libby so you can create new tags I think there's a few that are defaulted that are already available but I've heard of people creating like new releases tags or TBR tags so so whenever you search for a book or browsing for a new book you can assign tags to it and then whenever you go into that tag section on Libby you'll be able to see all the books that fall under that category my next tip is only available for some libraries so out of the three library cards only one of them has this ability but it's called skip the line it's a really fun feature for those of you that have access to it and I really enjoy just checking in on it every once in a while to see what's available when you go into search for a

9:57 book you'll see that there's a lot of like common filters or categories that you can choose if your library has this option available you will also see a skip the Line Filter once you click on that filter you'll see all the books that are available through the skip the line process and basically these are just books that your library has made available immediately so there's no weight no holds you can simply borrow the book immediately so they try and just pick you know some popular books that you normally would have to wait for and make them available immediately through skip the line so like I said this is not a necessary feature just another fun one that's available for some people and you can easily see if your library has that availability on the search tab another feature that's available to everyone but I don't know many people like know about or use very often is the news stand so this is the

10:44 access to magazines that you're available through Libby it is not just limited to ebooks and audiobooks there is also a immense collection of magazines so you can scroll through the news stand section to see what magazines are available um if you find a cop that you're interested in you simply click on it and it will take you directly to like you're opening up a magazine and from there you can click around or flip through pages as you would a normal magazine there's also a really cool like extra feature that lets you be notified Whenever there is a new issue available so you'll always be able to see the latest issues as soon as they're published my last tip is another just kind of fun way to browse through Libby and get new book recommendations and this is to check out your own libraries curated recommendations if you click on the little Library building on the bottom of the app you'll be directed to

11:30 your library's kind of homepage within Libby each Library can then add different collections of books that they want to recommend so most of them will have kind of a just added section where they'll put all of the books that were recently added to the Libby collection that one in particular is one that I like to check pretty often because there's always new books coming out that I've missed or didn't hear about and I want to make sure I snag those or put my hold in so that I'm closer to the front of the line often you'll also find a section of librarians recommend foundations or seasonal collections so this is just a fun thing to browse every once in a while as a way to find new books that you might not have known about otherwise as you can tell I just adore Lippy I use it all of the time and I think they're a wonderful company for working with libraries and bringing

12:15 books to absolutely everyone hopefully some of these tips and tricks were helpful and will help you get the most out of this app share in the comments your favorite thing about Libby or let us know any other tips or tricks that youve found and make make sure you hit like on this video And subscribe to my channel to see even more recommendations like this in the future if you want to check out more of my tips you can head here to see my top 10 Kindle tips and tricks