Reviews for CloudLibrary

Not worth the time to download this app, not matter how many times ive uninstalled and reinstall it. Unless your interested in looking at the books they offer on the home page, fat chance if your going to find the one book you want through the search engine in the app. It never loads anything, no matter the word or words used in the search. It just keeps loading or comes back with no results. Whats the point of having a library app if it doesnt pull up any books in the search.

I've only used the app to play audio books, so I don't know how good it is for ebooks. The audio book keeps playing in the background when notifications arrive, so you'll miss part of the book while notifications are played. The task bar player lacks a play button, so when you pause playing an audio book, you won't be able to resume it without opening the full app. The car mode crashes frequently, and there are no buttons for fast forwarding or rewinding; you can only skip an entire chapter.

This is perhaps the worst app I have ever had to use for reading digital content. A move to a new area meant a new library and this is their default app. I had previously used Libby and loved it! Decent selection of books, awful dictionary, app is buggy...I could go on, but most people using this don't have a choice anyway, as it's the library who decides. Avoid if you have the option.

App has trouble finding books/authors using the search function. One day the book will show up when searching, the next day it just spins and spins until it times out or says the material can't be found. App is also inconsistent with saved lists. It takes a really long time to load them, and when it does finally load, sometimes all the saved books show up, sometimes only a few of them show up, and other times the books show up multiple times. It's very finicky and unreliable.

The Audio Reader has gotten a lot better than my previous review. The book search could be better, especially when I'm following a longer series. The choices seem to be related to the library, not the app, so I've been fortunate to have good selections. One of the worst problems is the data size. It is by far taking up the most space. When it returns a book, does it delete the downloads? And there is zero support. The help says contact the library, but they have no idea about technical issues.

Often, the app glitches when I try to view the homepage. If I click "trending audiobooks" it will bring up a blank, white page. I have the same issue when using the "search" option sometimes. It will say nothing is available. After I restart theapp, it's there. Also, I would love to see how long I've read/listened for the day. We have reading challenges in our area for kids and adults, and while we speed up the narration, I'd like to see how much ACTUAL time has been spent reading/listening.

I love my library, I love getting audiobooks through my library. But Lord, I cannot love this app. For version after version it is crash after crash, bizarre unresponsiveness is the default mode it seems. I fight to get it to work and have to expect it to behave poorly. I hope my library isn't paying much for this app on top of the royalties for the media because if they're paying a premium, no one is getting their money's worth.

The selection of books isn't great and you can only have 5 books total between borrows and hold. On several occasions, a book I had on hold went from available soon to on hold for ANOTHER 30 days within hours. I never got the option to actually borrow it. I only use the app in the rare case they have a book available that Libby doesn't. I wish my local library went back to Libby.

a fairly new addition to my library, so order books aren't readily available & new books may (most likely) have a hold time upto a year or longer. You can only "hold" 5 books for the wait list. I have gotten a few books where I didn't like the narrator's voice, so now I listen to the sample before getting a book. It helps. It'd nice to have options for audiobooks without having to pay for them.

Good points and Bad. I use Cloud Library for audio books. The player is fine, though it could use more flexible rewind control. CL selection is much better than Libby, but that may depend on your library. Libby has better search and tag. One big downside, CL is a HUGE space hog. It used over 25G for recordings. It needs a control to delete the downloads; I don't need to keep books I listened to years ago. I had to track down an obscure data folder, delete files manually and hope nothing broke.

awesome selection of e and audio books. only thing that is not perfect is that you have to hold some titles of ebooks and sometimes it says up to a month to get the title. other than that it's really a great way to read current and past titles. I find myself using it more than my kindle app and have read already 2 books that weren't free on Kindle unlimited as well as have others borrowed or on hold that are not available for Free with Kindle unlimited account and app.

good that i have access to library books but reader could use some work. the reader sometimes flashes to light mode for a sec while in dark mode. it jumps to the beginning of the chapter randomly. will also be good if the audiobook player shows progress of current chapter instead of whole book. It will be easier to backtrack within the chapter. A toggle to go between two modes is ok too if some people like to see whole book progress instead of chapter progress

This app gives error messages when you try to check out books, when you try to search for new books, and when you try to listen to an audiobook that you've finished before. And the only thing about this app that made it worth having instead of Hoopla was the "renew" option, which they've apparently gotten rid of.

I hate that my local library switched to this app. I can only borrow/hold 5 books at a time. It's slow to load options on the search screen. Searches have to be exact or it offers no results. It constantly has "web service errors" when I'm listening or even trying to borrow or return a book. The wait times displayed are not accurate.

5 stars for years until the last few weeks. Login doesn't work in phone or tablet app, but it does on the CL web interface and the library website itself, so the login is not the issue. I've cleared data/cache, uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled on both devices more times than I care to remember. The library could not help me. I've been using the web interface but the app is much better. Please help!

5 stars for choices, 3 for ease of use. Love the choices! I'm listening to my first book now. The timer has to be reset every every time; I can't select end of chapter for audiobooks. Too many keystrokes to set a bookmark. No dark mode? ! Also, from full speed to 80% isn't adequate, 80 % is too slow. I often prefer 90 to 95% speed of reading.

Not a bad app. Nice to have options. This is the one my library uses. I was able to download the audio book and listen to it offline. App would benefit from a couple of extra features. 1. Added filter capabilities when searching for books. Genre would be nice. 2. Would be nice to be able to set the sleep timer to the end of the chapter instead of preset times.

I wish the app had better listening controls, such as to stop playing at the end of the chapter rather than a # minute count. Doesn't make sense when listening to a book. I also wish when reading a book in scroll format it didn't stop at the end of a chapter then just jump into the next. When I'm scrolling I want to smoothly move through the book and place the text in an optimal reading zone on the screen.

The app takes forever to do a search to the point where it will stall out and show a blank screen. And you have to get the title or author exactly correct or it won't find anything at all, much less results of similar name. **Came back to reduce from 3 to 2 stars. After I pause the book, more often than not I have to press play 2-4 times to get it to work. Sometimes I have to close the app entirely. This is especially irritating when I'm using ear buds bc my hands are busy.

This app has a lot of improvements to be made. 1. Users should be able to rate a book so that others can quickly decide if they want that book or not. It's tiring having to Google each book to see how many stars before choosing to read it. 2. The method of searching is ridiculous. Most times, the search returns, "no title match this criteria...". When searching for an author, you have to type in their last name first, then add a comma (,) then their first name.