Clevnet Libraries App Hack 2022.2.2 + Redeem Codes

Overall this is a big improvement from the terrible prior app. However, a couple of key things are missing or need to be improved.

1. Let me pay fines from the app. Seriously. Make it easy for me to give you my money and keep my account clear.
2. For the ebook download, when I select Kindle format the "Done" at the bottom is a dark color against a dark background and it's almost impossible to read. I thought it took me out of the app and it was hard to figure out it didn't.
3. Make it easy to get back to the "home" screen. Right now I have to press "back" over and over until I get back to home.
4. Let me renew items more easily.
5. Let me place holds for multiple titles in a search more easily.

Right now, if there are multiple items due on the same day that I want to renew or multiple items by the same author that I want to place on hold, I have to go into each item to renew/request it individually. Let me check a number of items and then renew/reserve them all together. You actually can do this in the terrible BookMyne app.

I used Overdrive with perfect success for at least a decade. Now it’s tapped into a different (Ohio?) Digital library and Clevenet just disappeared and something new called Libby appeared that is tied to Clevenet who just notified me via email that a book I wanted is in my Holds now and if I want it I must log in soon to accept it. Now I cannot login to Clevenet at all which keeps wanting to use Overdrive and I have no idea what my old formerly saved credentials are to type in to Clevenet. None of the password number suggestions worked either and the old info in my saved password doc isn’t working anymore either. Grrrrrrr!! Funny everything worked just fine less than 2 months ago when I placed the hold on the book. Of course it’s after midnight and I can’t reach anyone (and probably not tomorrow/Saturday either due to covid). I have wasted an hour over this nonsense.

This app is fine for what it does—it’s great for searching for material available as physical and digital editions, across the libraries, Libby, and Hoopla. It tends to be a little slow to load your account, which is why I gave it 3/5, but when it’s loaded, it works perfectly. The only thing I would ask is to have a ‘wishlist’ function just for the user, similar to tagging in Hoopla and Libby, where the user can have a private list of materials they’d like to read next, especially for physical material, which can’t be saved in Libby/Hoopla. That would take this app to the next level in my opinion.

I stopped using the Clevnet system when the switch to the truly awful BookMyne app was made. This app, while better than the truly awful BookMyne app, is poorly laid out and lacks many of the features of the app prior to the truly awful BookMyne app.

To be noted: there appears to be active development of the Clevnet Libraries app with recent version changes 1, 5, and 11 months ago (as of 2/20) compared to the truly awful BookMyne app with version changes 3, 4, and 6 years ago.

Suggest changing “being held” to “ready for pick-up” if “being held” means only ready for pick-up. “Being held” is, to my mind, the status that ensues immediately after I push the “place hold” button. “Ready for pick-up” means, well, read to be picked up without obvious ambiguity.

Suggest changing color scheme, or allowing color scheme changes for greater contrast, perhaps a dark-mode option.

Suggest aligning icons and text on home page for neatness sake and a more polished, professional look.

Suggest eliminating the neck-bending left sidebar in landscape mode with a matching landscape orientation for my home-base library.

Happy to have an app for my local libraries, great improvement and convenience but still needs a few tweaks. Would like to be able to pay fines and the user account drop down needs to include "my lists" so that I can access titles I have saved while in the library rather than necessarily placing a hold.

I’m so glad to see a decent app for our library. Having my lists would be nice. Being able to pay fines would also be convenient. I’m betting there are fees to receive funds with an app though. Multiple renewals would also be a good idea. Overall, the app is still easier to use than pulling the site up on Safari or Google.

This app looks better and is more modern, BUT the old app offered better information. I want to see my items in transit and whether they’re actually AT the library for pick up. For pick up it says something like “being held”. I know it’s being held...I put it on hold. I mean come on...why not Ready for pick up? Or ready. Or come and get it.
Also...I wanna see when my items are in transit like the old better app. I want to know when it goes from “being on hold” to “moving my direction”.

I used to love this app for checking holds and checkouts. Now I have so many problems. I have to log back in a lot or close and restart the app almost every time until it displays my checkouts and holds. Also sometimes it denies placing holds for multiple items but if I sign out and sign back in it will finally work. Too many steps just to quickly check my account.

This app is overall okay. It’s really not ideal for ebooks. If you open the app while listening it’s never at the part of the book you are really at. If I pause it it takes it back to the beginning of the chapter almost every time. If I reopen the app, the same thing happens- it’s at some random part of the book. Very frustrating.

I like Clevnet overall. I like having all of Ohio in reach. I just need a Wish List in the app I.e., for future reading. I end up with a long list of Suspended Holds to keep a list of things I’m interested in but don’t want yet.