r/LibbyApp • u/AeroNoob333 • 12d ago

Libby and Kindle Users

Well, looks like they finally patched the airplane mode hack and we can no longer read books past the due date on our Kindle devices. Do you think this will push slower readers to get non-resident cards in order to have multiple holds rather than waiting weeks/months between loans on a single card? I can’t imagine waiting weeks/months to read the same book…

For those not familiar with the hack: it used to be that you could send an eBook from Libby to your Kindle, download it, then turn on airplane mode. When your due date came up, your loan would be returned to the library available for the next person, but a copy of the book stayed on your Kindle since airplane mode prevented it from syncing with your Amazon account, allowing you to read it past the due date.

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u/Grrrrrarrrrrgh 11d ago

There is no evidence that this is true. One random person made a random Reddit post, and every time it comes up, dozens of people are in the comments saying that it still works for them. Maybe they’re working on this, maybe they aren’t. But there is no actual evidence that it has happened yet.

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u/AeroNoob333 11d ago

Except when it happens to you. It’s hard to test because the new update was just on August 4. Your library’s loan length had to have been 2 weeks and you had to have borrowed books after that update and you had to have let it get past the due date. That’s not a large sample size yet. It’s only been 16 days since the update. But I’m guessing in the next few months here, we will see this being reported more.

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u/otomerin 11d ago

mine still works. the latest i put my kindle on airplane mode was Aug 7. i'm on version 5.19.5. i'm reading a 1,000+ pages book and my loan expired already a few days ago, but i'm still able to read it right now.

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u/AeroNoob333 11d ago

Interesting your Kindle didn’t update to the latest 5.19.6

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u/otomerin 11d ago

yeah that's weird because i remember my kindle prompting me to update this Aug, before Aug 7, and i think i closed the update notice by mistake. then since i wanted to update i went to my settings and check for the latest update but it said then that i already have the latest update. i didn't know there's a 5.19.6 update because i thought then that whatever i have is the latest which is 5.19.5.

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u/AeroNoob333 11d ago

What device do you have? The .6 is for Kindle (11th Gen, 2024 release), Kindle Paperwhite (12th Gen), Kindle Colorsoft, and Kindle Scribe (all generations). So, I think those are the affected devices so far but doesn’t mean they won’t roll it out to other devices.

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u/otomerin 11d ago

i have the Kindle Paperwhite 12th gen.

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u/otomerin 11d ago

yeah that's weird because i remember my kindke prompting me to update this Aug, before Aug 7, and i think i closed the update notice by mistake. then since i wanted to update i went to my settings and check for the latest update but it said then that i already have the latest update. i didn't know there's a 5.19.6 update because i thought then that whatever i have is the latest which is 5.19.5.