Finding Libby

I was always an avid reader from childhood and libraries have been very important to me wherever I have lived up and down England. I particularly remember finding a love for historical fiction once as a 10 year old when a librarian in Middlesbrough recommended a Henry Treece novel. However, with children and a busy restaurant to run, my book intake and library use had dwindled until very recently when a friend recommended Libby, the library app. I was a bit sceptical, especially when I couldn’t seem to find my local library on it. The library staff on the telephone and on the online chart sorted me out in record quick time ( I was inputting Ashford library instead of Kent County Council!) The help I received was brilliant and then I opened a treasure trove of online reading (I always used Kindle to read on my IPad anyway) and audio books - all for FREE. This has revolutionised my reading/ listening life! It works so brilliantly and easily. I have read and listened to books I would never have tried if I were spending hard earned cash and feel myself enriched by this. The audio books, in particular, are fantastic, well recorded and easily downloaded so I can listen while I jog or sew or garden. Libby has changed my life for the better and I am busy recommending this app to everyone I know.