Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines easily on your device. Libby has one of the largest collections of digital media that you can borrow using your library card.
Thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines for all ages are at your fingertips with Libby, by OverDrive.
Find an ever-expanding collection of new fiction and non-fiction titles for all ages or choose from more than 6,000 magazines covering a range of topics, such as news, business, science, fashion, and more.
The Fastreads collection offers new and popular titles available immediately, with no holds and no waiting.
Ebooks are available in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and German, audiobooks in English and French, and magazines in many languages.
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You can search the GVPL catalogue for titles, or search within the OverDrive website or Libby app.
You can browse by subject and genre, borrow content, place holds, and return titles, and you can set email notifications to receive an alert when a book on hold is ready to borrow.
Get started
Log in with your GVPL library card to start borrowing.
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This Digital Collection is a third-party service hosted in the U.S. or in another location outside Canada. Creation of a user account may store limited Personal Information (email address, password, library barcode and password, and the date of your last login) on a server stored outside Canada. Upon account creation, you are consenting and become subject to the privacy policy of the service provider. GVPL encourages patrons to review all third-party privacy policies and statements to protect their personal information.
Where other (third-party) organizations require personal information in order to provide services on behalf of the Library, the Library makes reasonable efforts to obtain commitments from such organizations that they treat the personal information in compliance with FIPPA and this policy. However, once information is in the hands of other organizations, it is beyond the Library’s control, and the Library cannot be accountable for the use, or further disclosure, of that information.
What you need
Phone, tablet, or computer
Internet connection
Checkout limits
10 titles at a time
1 Fastread at a time
Unlimited magazines
Loan period
21 days
Fastread ebooks: 7 days
Fastread audiobooks: 14 days
Returns
Return early so you can borrow more books or the item will expire automatically at the end of the loan period
Holds
15 at a time
Hold pick-up period: 3 days
Renewals
Titles can be renewed 3 days before they expire if there are no holds on the item.
Fastreads cannot be renewed.
