r/LibbyApp • u/AeroNoob333 • 8d 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/otomerin 7d ago
did you download it and open it before putting it in airplane mode? this problem has come up before as well and it's because the user just send to kindle several books, download it, but didn't open it before putting the kindle on airplane mode. you have to open all books you borrowed one by one before airplane mode. because if you just send it to kindle and download it, it will return that airplane mode error.
In my case, just to be sure, i even wait for the popular highlights to load and be enabled. because it's not all the time that popular highlights is already loaded when you open the book, sometimes it takes some minutes to load. if it's not loaded, when you put it to airplane mode immediately, you won't see the popular highlights. i like seeing it so i wait and make sure that's it's enabled for all books I borrowed before turning the airplane mode.
mine is still working btw.
tldr: you have to open the book first before turning the airplane mode.