FEATURELIST
- Library selection screen
- Category oriented browsing in your library
- Easy browsing of all eMagazines in your library
- Text search with auto-completion
- Clear structured result lists
- Wide array of filter options for all search results and lists
- Detailed overview for all titles with additional preview option
- Lending and download options for available eBooks and eMagazines
- Lending and streaming options for available eAudio and eMusic titles
- Download option for eAudio and eMusic titles
- Reservations for non-available titles
- Overview for all lent, reserved and downloaded titles
- Wishlist feature
- Integrated eBook reader
- Optimized for all smartphone- and tablet sizes
- Offline reading feature
- Offline player feature
- Expired titles are automatically returned
- Downloaded eBooks and eMagazines can be returned early
- Supports over 2.900 libraries
The Onleihe – the free of charge service of your library now as an app, supports over 2.900 libraries.
With this app you’ll always have your library with you. Browse the collection of your library and lent eBooks and eMagazine on the fly or from your home directly with your smartphone or tablet. You can also lent eAudio and eMusic titles, listen to them via streaming or download them directly onto your device. Following the same principle as the web-based Onleihe, the lent titles can be consumed free of charge for a certain set amount of time. Afterwards the titles will automatically be returned to the library.
You can search directly throughout the app or browse the collection of your library through different categories and eMagazines. On first sight, you’ll see if a title is available and you can alter your search results with an wide array of different filter or sort options.
The detailed view of a certain title will give you all the information you seek, from the name of the book, the author, to the series name, length and much more. If a title is temporary not available you can also reserve it. As soon as the title is then available for you, you will get an e-mail notification to the address you specified. Your reservations are easily accessible with an overview and you can directly lent the titles if they are available. Should you no longer need an ongoing reservation or if you do need to change the address, you are able to edit or delete your reservations.
At any given time you can access your overview of your lent titles. At the moment you are able to lent, read or listen to eBooks, eMagazines, eAudios and eMusic titles.
ACCESS
To access the service of the Onleihe, you need to be an active member of a library who is part of the Onleihe system. Username and login credentials are provided by your library. Should you already use the Onleihe via the web-browser you can use the exact same login credentials to access the app.
CONSUME MEDIA
You are able to directly load and read all eBooks and eMagazines which you have lent beforehand. You are also free use a different external DRM able eBook reader. eAudio and eMusic titles can be streamed directly via the in app player, or you can chose to download the titles and listen to them later on, even offline. This also needs to be done directly via the in app player.
I am so ashamed about this technological library app implication that I had to write a poem about it.
Why can’t they just get stuff done properly those Germans?
Goethe
I am at rage,
this library again,
it carries his name only,
those Germans operating,
in the “Zone of Interest”
only
they are not alone anymore,
I feel still in the influence of
a dictator, when I visit the Institute.
Sitting at the desk,
I feel they still behave like no brains,
without shame and excuses it rains,
from those showers.
Writing these words,
I feel like an engineer,
but I think like a poet.
Since Wernher left
Peenemünde, for
America
and rose to Apollo,
nothing changed,
innovation was washed out in 1945.
An easterly wind carried away the German poets,
in the ashes and smoke of the war.
The Goethe and Schiller, followed by
Brecht and Böll,
the Lost Honour,
where is Katharina
she never returned.
Spit out the spirit of Blum,
through the chimneys of history,
in a country of Walther,
his greener then green Vogelweide
was the last one,
to rest.
Where are the German Poets
of our time?
To listen, to learn to comprehend,
the rage for the library carries his name,
so it tells you,
you can’t listen to Brecht,
The Browser is not on the List
for the Streamers,
it’s is not in your Recht,
to listen to these words,
these words of those poets,
we lost in and will never listen to,
as they missed the meadows,
for the bunkers for a dictator,
the beaches of bunkers,
the stacks of history,
we can never foretell.
Then we branched our futures,
from those Vogelweiden away,
when will we find those green
spring meadows of orchids,
of coloured words of poetry again.
At rage about the dis functionality of the German technology at the Goethe Institute, and its inability to serve the curious poets of yesteryear.
Jumps around randomly
This app is so unreliable. It often jumps to random locations within the audiobook. So much worse than Audible
Stopped working
I used to love this app but it just doesn’t work anymore , can’t get pages and info to load
Latest update makes book jump each time to beginning
There are several week points, many have been mentioned before, but now each time I either close the app, or even only minimise it, the book opens back at the beginning.
I have tried this now with several books.
The other thing I dislike, is that there is no record of which books I have borrowed in the past.
Keeps getting stuck and won’t load chapters
I mainly use the app to read German books to my child. It worked fine for a few weeks and now it stops loading the next pages after a chapter or further into the book. Very annoying for a 6 year old and therefore makes it useless to me.
It would be great to see where you could get support to resolve the issue.
Extremely slow, messy interface
Hopefully it will improve with future iterations
Not great
I think the app got better over the years but it’s annoying that you can’t return audiobooks early. I’m often stuck with an audiobook I don’t like. I should be able to return it so someone else can read it
You need to login every time you use the app.
Really badly done in my opinion. You can listen to audiobooks but they are weirdly cut into 2.35 min junks and also it logs you out of the app automatically, which is super unnecessary and annoying.
Could really be improved quite a lot .... maybe you should look to apps like audible as inspiration ...
Lots of room for improvement
Navigation is poor. Chapters are not numbered, so you don’t know where you are, which is particularly unfortunate because frequently, when you open the app, it has jumped back to a chapter near the beginning. It’s difficult to find back to where you were.
The 30-second forward/back is disabled. If you miss a bit or didn’t understand, you have to listen to the whole chapter again.
The app crashes frequently.
I would never spend money on this app, and if it was commercial it couldn’t afford to be this bad.
Worked OK
A bit confusing to work out as you need to have different log ins for the app and for Adobe as well.
Was confused about the language, as it suggests you may want to “lend” books, until I realised it meant “borrow”. It’s wrong in a number of places.
It downloads things that can’t be read on device, and it’s a pity it doesn’t tell you before you download it.
As of August 2019, it still says you have lent a book rather than borrowed it.
