Valid San Francisco Public Library card number.Tablet, smartphone, PC/Mac computer, or Kindle device.The Libby app is available for free from your device's app store.

If you're new to OverDrive and digital borrowing, consider using Libby OverDrive, a user-friendly app for borrowing digital books and audiobooks from the library's OverDrive collection. Please watch this short, informative video if you are a first-time user of the Libby app by OverDrive. This information was taken directly from OverDrive's site.Getting Started | Libby | Checking Out | Kindle Books | Placing Holds | Renewing | Returning | Adobe Digital Editions | Requirements | Service Alert for MacOS Users | Help/Troubleshooting Note: Our library’s digital collection will continue to be available at

More notification options: Get push notifications on your mobile device (or emails from ) for available holds, expiring loans, and more.

Unlimited tags: Create custom tags to categorize books however you’d like, and use Libby’s smart tags to track what you've borrowed or get notified about new issues of your favorite magazines.

Improvements to navigating book series: Easily find the next book in a series from search results, title details, and your Shelf. Libby makes it easier than ever to discover books in a series.

A central Shelf: Loans and holds from all your libraries are automatically added to your Shelf.

Libby offers many unique features and options that are not available in the OverDrive app. Libby, on the other hand, continues to have new features and updates added based on reader and librarian feedback. OverDrive is planning to discontinue the OverDrive app in April 2023.

The OverDrive app is no longer under active development, meaning that OverDrive won't be adding new features or updates.

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