Posted by Anne M on Monday, Feb 5, 2018
Sometimes some small details can make a big difference in how you experience something, especially if it saves time. Here are some small things you can do in Libby, our app for OverDrive eBooks and audiobooks that make reading (or listening) even easier.
Get right to what you want by changing your search preferences
By clicking the plus sign, you can change how your search results are filtered and sorted. See only what is available right now or only titles in a specific format. Or change to have Libby sort by what’s most popular, by title or author, or by release date.
Like to know where you are or how much you have left to go?
One of the things I love about a book, a real bounded, paper book, is looking at the number of pages in my left hand versus the number in my right. It is satisfying as the pages transfer from one hand to the other. With audiobooks (or eBooks), this sort of translates to the percentage completed. To find out where you are in a book in the Libby app, tap on the time left or the page numbers above the timeline. For eBooks, it will show the pages left in the chapter. Another tap will give you the percentage of the total book completed. The audiobook will give you these options, but in time.
Want to read the next book in a series?
You can find series information pretty easily now in Libby. Searching the series name will bring up results that indicate a series search. You can search for a series and the results will come up…in order! And each book in the series will indicate what number it is in the series in the book details, as well as the other titles in the series—and the order to read them in.
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Anne Mangano has worked for the Iowa City Public Library since 2008, serving as the Collection Services Coordinator since 2013. In this position, she oversees ICPL's collection, including the selection, cataloging, processing, repair, and removal of materials, including the library's digital collections. Anne holds a Bachelor of...
Agnes Magnusdottir and Fridrik Sigurdsson were the last people executed in Iceland. It was January 12, 1830. They were both convicted of murdering Natan Ketilsson, a noted herbalist, healer, and farmer, stabbing him to death and setting his house on fire. In Burial Rites, Kent offers her interpretation of Agnes’ final months. Agnes awaits her execution housed with the family of District Officer Jon Jonsson, which understandably causes friction in the household. What I appreciate about the novel is that the murder isn’t the center of the narrative. Rather, Kent writes well about the building of a relationship and the development of trust and understanding between people who already have their minds made up about each other. This growth is stunted by the impending execution, which hangs over the situation like a sword of Damocles. Indeed, an axe is being fashioned. I also enjoyed how Kent used government documents and letters from officials on how to deal with the prisoners and the execution into the narrative. It’s a bleak novel—but it really can’t be anything else. -Anne M