u/hiheaux

And realize — with genuine humility — just how WONDERFUL LIBBY IS!

OMG what a horrible Android App Kindle is! God strike me dead if I ever utter another complaint against Libby.

Where do I begin? Well, how about the 785 MB piece of bloatware Kindle is. I do not doubt that the physical devices are easy to read on but nothing prepared me for the tsunami of commercially-motivated advertising on Kindle.

If any of you read my first post to this sub it will come as no surprise that I hate advertising! I turn to my books for the peaceful exercise that comes from reading. So when I first installed Kindle I met with a screen filled with row after row of eBooks Amazon shoved in front of my face for sale. It took two sub-reddits just to figure out that I had to “send” my library book from Libby to the Kindle App. This finally initialized Kindle by doing me the great honor of providing a Menu. 🧐 Gee. I'm touched.

Suffice to say I went fleeing back to Libby! Libby, who takes approximately 35 MB of storage. I have never seen a more User Hostile interface as Amazon’s Android App. But then, this is Amazon. Amazon, who is in the business of selling books (along with everything else mass produced). Why should they make a humble library checkout easy, let alone intuitive? Give us money.

Yes, they offer a darker Ivory background paper. But even that was not good enough in the final analysis. I had transferred the library book I was reading to Kindle but went back to Libby to finish it. Yes, I want custom Page colors; local fonts. But it will come in time or it won’t.

Even now I can’t tell if my eBook return went through on Amazon!! Nothing is intuitive on this interface! I’m online; I’m in the app; I’m online; I’m <SNIP>.

I just wanted to post this in the event anyone else new to checking out Library eBooks in particular meets with one of the most new-user hostile interfaces I have ever seen. Amazon wants you to purchase eBooks from them. Well if I had unlimited resources sure, I’d love to buy eBooks. But I don’t.

And thus ends the saga of my short excursion onto the rocky shoals of the Android Kindle App.

Quoth the raven, Nevermore!

I just installed the Kindle App for Android. I have NO toolbar, NO menu, NO home button. What I have is a screen with ebooks for sale by Amazon. I have tried every way possible of dragging the screen. The gear icon in the upper right corner is useless. How does anybody use this App? I wanted to checkout an eBook from my local library and can’t find anywhere to link to it. Would someone please help me?

I need to add a second Library Account to my Libby App and/or install a __second__ Libby Installation dedicated to this second library.

Can this be done and how?

If not, can I just uninstall my Libby App and give it a fresh install . . . with the second Library’s account data? It turns out my local library has 10% of the titles I want to read in eBook format, but a neighboring county has ALL of them!

I want a page background color deeper than the Eggshell-colored option, more Ivory. Does Libby have any options for customizing the background color your pages beyond the 3 on offer? And if not, do you think Libby/Overdrive will offer a commercial one I could purchase a license for? I’ve even turned the brightness setting on my phone down but that takes the text with it!

— and the absolutely horrible interface. I spend 20 minutes just trying to ascertain where Chapter (whatever) begins and everywhere is their intrusive infernal advertising.

I know the only (legit) apps for my Public Library are Libby and Overdrive but I want the paper to be customizable — darker than the eggshell that I can get in Libby; more Ivory. And I like my text black.

Are there purchase options that expand these settings? And if so, is it a lifetime license or another one of these subscription ripoffs?

Thank you fellow Libraryists. I look forward to your thoughts.

The lyrical Whoo Whoo Whoo-ing is to me as waves on the shore: a gentle lullabye that relaxes me and puts me to sleep! Or maybe I just got lucky and we have the melodic species? ☺️

TERM LIFE

And I need a multiple-carrier rates comparison aggregator. California 94803

Thanks