Great app, needs a few fixes though
Love the app but have encountered three major issues with it:
1. When browsing books in the search function, only the same few books show up over & over when scrolling through, unless you scroll right to the bottom and force it to load more. Once these have loaded the same thing happens on repeat.
2. When making lists, the list doesn't show all the books. E.g I have a list containing 14 books, but it only shows the cover / icons for 10 books and then half the top of another two, and that's it. All my lists cut off without showing all the books in them.
3. The audiobooks do not tell you how long they are when browsing through the titles. This feels like a massive oversight and audiobook length should be included with other info like the language and publication year. It would be good if the narrator was listed also.
1. When browsing books in the search function, only the same few books show up over & over when scrolling through, unless you scroll right to the bottom and force it to load more. Once these have loaded the same thing happens on repeat.
2. When making lists, the list doesn't show all the books. E.g I have a list containing 14 books, but it only shows the cover / icons for 10 books and then half the top of another two, and that's it. All my lists cut off without showing all the books in them.
3. The audiobooks do not tell you how long they are when browsing through the titles. This feels like a massive oversight and audiobook length should be included with other info like the language and publication year. It would be good if the narrator was listed also.
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Best app ever
You can get audiobooks for free and thousands of diffrent comedies and books.
Let me reset my password
I updated this app a few days ago and it forcibly logged me out and now my library-assigned pin isn’t working and none of my usual passwords are correct either - and nowhere on the app or on the mobile site is there an option for me to reset my password. Nothing in the website the “help” link takes you to is related to resetting a password either. The range of titles on this app is fantastic but this app is so clunky at the best of times. I have a loan I would like to read. Let me log in. Let me fix my login issues without having to physically go to my local library. It’s baffling to me that it’s not easy to do this.
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Free books!
Love that I get to save money as the app and access to books are free. There’s definitely a couple of bugs that need to be fixed, but I’m enjoying the app so far!
logging in too often
the app requests log in every 2-3 days and is very slow to show the bookshelf, I’d like the search to work for titles better, the series Im listening to isn’t all under the same link because each book is in its own ie: series name #1, etc so I can’t just hit the series link to access the next in the series, can’t even find the book title when I type it in exactly, have to search the author and trawl through all of the books looking at the tiny thumbnails trying to see which is the one I want, recently the menus all were in another language but the main parts were in english
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Unreliable
I would give this app one star on technical grounds but I appreciate being able to access quality literature for free.
I have had carefully curated reading lists mysteriously deleted, books mysteriously returned before completing them and periodically shut out for long periods. It’s one of the worst apps I have ever used.
I have had carefully curated reading lists mysteriously deleted, books mysteriously returned before completing them and periodically shut out for long periods. It’s one of the worst apps I have ever used.
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App keeps crashing
This app keeps logging me out or crashing. It is slow to load and often misses progress (restarting a-previous page)
Essential
This app has such a fantastic library of titles. No more audible for me. An essential piece of public infrastructure, and I hope every public library in Australia participates.
Glitchy
Extremely frustrated to get 64 of 68 chapters into a gripping book and the title was unable to be played or re-downloaded. Tried uninstalling and re-installing the app without success. Tried accessing on another device but had the same issue.
Improvements
This app could be improved with page numbers and total pages.
For example 27/257
This would support moving backward and forward through the book.
For example 27/257
This would support moving backward and forward through the book.
Pathetic and almost useless
Horrible, terrible and a waste of government money. Constantly deleting downloads and signing out on its own. Won't pause on Bluetooth commands, only on screen (the only app that does this). What a disgrace of a platform
Improvement needed
Please add available dates for items on hold. I can see them on the website but the app doesn’t have it. Browsing can be improved also. After tapping to see a book detail, it does not take me back to where I was. It takes me to the top of the page. Please update so that it take me back to where I was.
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Love the content, hate the app
Every update logs you out, removes downloaded content and introduces a new annoying bug to deal with. I go to put on a book for my drive, find I’m required to put in my library and login yet again, and then discover the book I’m half way through is no longer downloaded and the app refuses to play it or download it until I’m on wifi; despite the fact I’ve set it to accept cellular data. This is an infuriating experience for someone who travels a lot and has no home internet.
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Tech problems
The books that I borrow on indyreads™ are great so thank you for those. I do have a problem with the technology of this site though, because when I go out it keeps dropping out and I have to re-login. The technology side of the app does not seem to work as well as Libby or BorrowBox.
Automatic Logout
The app is fine in the way it works, but it annoyingly automatically logs me out every few days and then deletes my downloaded title. Sometimes I’ll exit the app or pause the audiobook for only a few minutes and I’m logged out again. It’s very frustrating as I have to wait till I get home to download it again.
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Extremely laggy/slow; abysmal text-to-speech engine
I don’t know why loading the book and reading on this app is frustratingly slow even if the book is already downloaded into the device. The on-screen settings popups don’t go away after setting something up, and I have to close and reopen the app to make it work normally again. Also, while the text-to-speech engine is helpful, it doesn’t have the natural-sounding voice and is robotic, which I did not expect from a 2025 app.
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Really problematical
Hard to locate holds that are notified as ready. Many problems when reception is not the absolute best - esp in comparison with other audiobook apps.
Download issue
I have been having issues with this app. All was going well but then I kept being logged out of the account. I mostly listen to audiobooks when I’m driving to and from work. It usually takes a minute for my car in-play system to connect to my phone, by which time I’m driving and am therefore unable to log into the app. When this has occurred, I have also had to re-download the book. Mercifully, on each occasion my place in the book has been maintained.
But now I have a different problem that I have not been able to overcome. The last time this happened to me, when I went to download the book (again!) it came up with a “Download error”. I cannot play the book. I get the spinning wheel of death that never resolves.
I have tried countless times over different days. I’ve tried logging out. I’ve even deleted the app and it has come back, still maintaining my place but displaying the error message. I’m 70% through the book so this is very frustrating.
As a fun aside, the app has also sent me a notification reminding me that I’ve got a book that I seem to have forgotten about!! lol, thanks for that.
But now I have a different problem that I have not been able to overcome. The last time this happened to me, when I went to download the book (again!) it came up with a “Download error”. I cannot play the book. I get the spinning wheel of death that never resolves.
I have tried countless times over different days. I’ve tried logging out. I’ve even deleted the app and it has come back, still maintaining my place but displaying the error message. I’m 70% through the book so this is very frustrating.
As a fun aside, the app has also sent me a notification reminding me that I’ve got a book that I seem to have forgotten about!! lol, thanks for that.
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Good but…
It’s great to access library books but it is a pain that it keeps logging you out all the time and you have to redownload titles and it doesn’t tell you how much of the book you have read. Also the last update that was done in Nov 2025 that was done to fix log in issues has made it worse and now I can’t log in at all
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Awesome
I love a good read that doesn’t break the bank or take up a pile of space.
