Everand: Audiobooks & Ebooks

For less than the cost of a 1-book-a-month audible subscription, you get three. It’s way better value. My library uses hoopla not Libby, which has a really limited collection. And Libby, when I could use it, only lets you have a book for 2 weeks, often after a months long wait for a popular title. As someone who loves listening to audio books while cleaning and driving and exercising, it’s a great addition and worth the cost. I also love that you can listen to a really substantial sample of a book before committing to redeeming one of your credits on it. There have been a few I sampled but realized were not for me after listening. I wasted a lot of audible credits on books I didn’t really get into. The only drawbacks are that you can’t send ebooks to your kindle, like you can with Libby, and the app can be glitchy. A few times I ran into problems with the app suddenly marking a book I was in the middle of as finished while I was listening to it, and not allowing me to go any further. The customer service was no help. The only solution was to delete and reinstall the app which I figured out on my own. I didn’t lose my place but it was annoying and I hope it doesn’t keep happening.

Very frustrated. Back when they just had the SCRIBD app, performance was snappy and all was well. This EVERAND app has always been clunky. I don't know why one would bother downloading any audiobook on the app because if you're ever off-line without any Internet connection or cellular, you won't be able to pull up your saved audiobook or e-book. The app just spins and spins. You won't be able to read or listen to your book until your phone has reliable reception again, despite the fact that the book is fully downloaded to your phone. Lastly, it's highly frustrating that now, with this new subscription model restricting legacy subscribers, excluding so many books one can listen to or read, they do not give you a simple way to filter. So if you're searching for a book, as a legacy subscriber, you have to select the item first. Then, and only then do you learn that it's not available unless you are willing to pay more money. Always the pitch to pay more money. If they want to support legacy subscribers, they should allow for a feature in the settings that allows the user to exclude those items that cost more money so that they don't clog up search results. I believe I may be done with this app when my subscription runs out this time. I'm not interested in paying a decent amount of money for an annual subscription, only to be pitched time and again about a book that I cannot read or listen to, being told that I need to pay them more money.

I had subscribe to the service for about five months or so then decided to cancel recently just to find out the date it cut me off a day early. I just needed to save some money recently so I decided to cancel for a short period of time but I’m not sure I’m coming back after my experience. During the time I subscribed, I kept having issues that the audiobooks I wanted to listen to were unavailable until the next renewal date. I would still have 10 days left on my subscription and find out that I couldn’t listen to the next audiobook I wanted to listen to in the series because it wasn’t available until my next subscription renewal date. This happened three times and it was very annoying. While this service may be cheaper than Audible, the aggravation may not be worth it. The app is also glitchy. I had times when I would answer the phone and the audiobook would still play in the background while I was trying to hear phone calls. I would set up to play the audiobook sometimes, and it would just cut off by itself while I was driving. Which is annoying because I live in a hands-free state and can’t go back and reboot the app. The glitches seemed to happen more often after I decided to cancel for a little while. The audio player with clothes for no reason in recent weeks and I kept having to stop what I was doing to reopen it just to get it to play again. Probably won’t renew now after the recent experience. You should shop around.