This is a good way to find other libraries with good collections.

When you are at the Overdrive home page, you can search for a book and it will tell you what libraries have the book, based on your location. When you are at a library's page, if you want to find something you can check out right now, go to 'Collections' > 'Audiobooks' > 'Available Now.' From there, you can narrow your search by genre. It will look like The whole relationship between Overdive and individual library pages feels a little clunky to me. Once you enter a library card, you can then go to that library's Overdive page and search its collection directly. You can browse a bit without creating an account, but you need to create a (free) account to search for books at your libraries. If you go to you can see the full catalog of all books that Overdrive is aware of. Overdrive seems to be like a master database for libraries to use.

Please add any other tips you have found - I'm definitely still learning! Below are some things I've figured out that might be useful to someone else. Libby is great for higher profile backlog titles.Ī few aspects to Libby and Overdrive feel a little complicated. Audible is great for finding new authors who aren't big enough to be be in libraries yet, like Dennis Taylor (Bobiverse), backlog titles that haven't been picked up by libraries (Swan Song), or anything you aren't willing to wait for. I'm now using Audible and Libby side-by-side. But a few months back I started exploring Libby, the audiobook app for libraries. First off, I'm a huge Audible fan, and I recommend Audible enthusiastically.

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