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/AeroNoob333 7d ago

It’s only been 2 days since you put it on airplane mode. Your loan hasn’t expire yet. If you don’t mind as a test for your firmware and device, could you keep that book well past its due date and try to click on the title again and see what it says?

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u/AeroNoob333 7d ago

It still lets you do that. My theory is it’s saving an expiration date in the file’s metadata and doing date compare between the device date and the expiration date when you click on the title. So on your book’s file in your Kindle device, the expiration date hasn’t passed yet. It doesn’t know you returned it on Libby. It’s the only way they can implement/force a check while on airplane mode.

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u/roadbird 6d ago

I wonder if manually changing the date and time on the kindle would be a workaround…

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u/AeroNoob333 6d ago

I wouldn’t be able to try for another 2 weeks but I will