Libby has tags!

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Libby is integrated pretty well with kobo (a recent issue with duplicate downloads notwithstanding), which makes the tagging feature in the Libby app quite appealing, because my biggest issue with library checkouts is that sometimes I get a book out and the mood does not strike me to read that book during the window in which I have the book out. This has made me a less avid user of library checkouts than I would like, because I return too many books unread.

ebooks at least are low effort to checkout, and easy to return. But it is exciting for me to be able to mark books as “looked promising, try again later” and also to have the whole array of which books I have checked out browsable via tags. 

The biggest downsides are that I can’t link my university library to it, as far as I can tell, and that audiobooks and magazines don’t lend to my kobo for what I assume are very silly rights related reasons. I can borrow them to my phone though, and there is no real situation where I want to audiobook and my kobo would be workable but the phone wouldn’t. The magazines is a drag though!