UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries is expanding access to a wide variety of digital books for curriculum support or leisure reading. Now, students, faculty and staff can borrow and read the school’s growing collection of e-books and audiobooks for free through the Libby app.
Libby offers convenient and safe access to hundreds of popular and educational e-books and digital audiobooks from the Libraries’ leisure reading collection. Using the app is easy and gives readers the freedom to read across devices, download to read or stream offline, inside the classroom, at home and anywhere at any time.
The Libby app is available for Penn State students, faculty and staff to download through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store on phones and tablets, and on Chromebooks that support the Google Play Store. The digital collection can also be accessed in web browsers at https://libbyapp.com, without the app. Through Libby, readers can also enjoy digital books on their Kindle devices [U.S. only]. All titles automatically expire at the end of the lending period and there are no late fees. Readers can also download titles onto Libby for offline use.
Libby was built by OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform for a growing network of 81,000 colleges and universities, schools and public libraries — including Penn State University Libraries and Schlow Centre Region Library — in 106 countries.
To get started enjoying e-books, audiobooks and more, download Libby and sign in with your Penn State Account userid and password, or visit https://libraries.psu.edu/services/libby-overdrive for tips and additional information.