Instructions for using Libby on Kindle devices

Libby is a collection of ebooks, How to setup Libby: audiobooks and magazines. You can 1) Open the Silk on your have 10 items checked out and 10 Kindle and go to www.libbyapp.com items on hold at one time. 2) When you open the Libby website for the first time, it will ask you if you have a library card. Select “Yes”. Loan periods (you can choose the 3) If you have already installed Libby on length of the loan at checkout): another device, select “Copy from my  Ebook – 7, 14 or 21 days other device” and then follow the

 Audiobook—7, 14 or 21 days instructions. Otherwise, select “I’ll Search for a Library” and then type in  Magazines—7, 14 or 21 days Plainfield. From the search results, select eIndiana Digital Consortium Plainfield-Guilford Township Public The Libby app can be installed on: Library.  Android mobile devices 4) When it asks you where you use your  Apple mobile devices library card, select Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library. It will then ask  Windows 10 computers you to enter your library card number. Type in the number that’s on the back of If you can’t install the Libby app on your Plainfield library card, then select your device, you can access Libby “Sign In”. through your device’s web browser (go 5) After you are signed in, you will see the to www.libbyapp.com). Compatible details for your Linked Card. You will web browsers include: have the option to rename this card. When you are ready, select “Next”.  Chrome

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How to borrow a title: How to read a borrowed title in Kindle: 1) Select the Library icon at the bottom of 1) In the Loans section of Libby, select the the screen, then select “Search For A title and select “Open Book“. Select the Book” at the top of the screen. If you want option to read it with a Kindle app/device. to browse through the collection instead, The Silk browser will go to the Amazon select “Explore”. website. Sign in with the e-mail address 2) Once you have found a title, select it to and password of your Amazon account. see its details. If it is available for 2) To the right of the title, there will be a checkout, it will have a “Borrow” button gray drop down box that says “Deliver next to it; otherwise it will have a “Place To”. From the drop down box, select your Hold” button next to it. Kindle device, then select the gold button 3) Select the “Borrow” button next to the above it that says “Get Library Book”. It title, then select the red “Borrow” button will confirm your action. to confirm. 3) Open the Books icon on your Kindle and 4) After it finishes borrowing the title, select select your title. “Open Book”. There will be options to read it with the Libby app, read it with a How to return a title: Kindle app/device, or send it to another device. 1) Select the Shop Amazon app on your Kindle.

2) Select the menu icon (3 vertical lines) in How to renew a title: the upper left. Select “Your Account.” If nobody has placed a hold on the title, you 3) Select “Manage your Kindle content and will have the option to renew it 2 days before devices”. it is due. 4) In the Content tab, select the title and 1) Select the Shelf icon at the bottom of the then select the “Actions” box to the left of screen, then select Loans. Select the title it. Select “Return this book”. It will ask you and select “Manage Loan”. to confirm—select ‘Yes”. 2) Select “Renew Loan”, then select “Renew” to confirm (if someone else has already placed a hold on the title, you will instead see the option to “Place Hold”).