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OverDrive: incident history

The last 24 hours in detail, OverDrive's declared incident record, and our regional check results beside it.

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We started checking OverDrive on November 2, 2026, which is 6 days ago. Everything below covers that period, not the full 90 days a longer-tracked service would show.

Email me when OverDrive reports an incident on its status page, and again when it reports it resolved.

One email when it is reported and one when it is resolved, after you confirm the address. No account, no card.

This is OverDrive's own statement from its status page, with our regional reading beside it.

The last 24 hours

What happened most recently, on one time axis: our own probe readings by surface, how many people reported a problem, and what OverDrive's own status page declared. Below it, any public chatter we saw about OverDrive and the extra probe it triggered.

The last 24 hours on one axis: what our probes read for each surface we check, how many people reported a problem, and what OverDrive's own status page declared. Three records side by side; none of them changes another.

Our probes, web
Unverified user reportsNo reports about OverDrive in the last 24 hours, which is not evidence that nothing is wrong.
OverDrive's status pageNo incident declared in the last 24 hours.

Each check cell is the worst reading across every region in that quarter hour: one region that did not answer colours the cell, never an average. An amber cell is a reading that answered, but at three times or more its 7-day median for three checks running: slow is not down, and we say which. A filtered reading stays neutral, because a refused check is not a failed check. Report bars count reports as submitted; we do not check who sent them, and they never change our reading. The status-page lane is OverDrive's own declaration, shown as they made it.

Third-party chatter, labeled

Public posts from the last hour that mention OverDrive next to an outage word (“down”, “outage”, “not working”). This is what other people said in public, collected by keyword: not something we measured, and not the user reports above. It never affects the verdict.

  • Bluesky posts1 in the last hour
  • Confirmation probe12:38 UTC, US-West: our own first failed reading prompted an extra probe. Result: OverDrive answered normally.
  • Confirmation probe08:07 UTC, US-West: our own first failed reading prompted an extra probe. Result: OverDrive did not answer.
  • Confirmation probe07:49 UTC, Europe: our own first failed reading prompted an extra probe. Result: OverDrive did not answer.
  • Confirmation probe07:37 UTC, US-West: our own first failed reading prompted an extra probe. Result: OverDrive did not answer.
  • Confirmation probe07:21 UTC, Europe: our own first failed reading prompted an extra probe. Result: OverDrive answered normally.

Checks passing by region

Checks passing is the checks that passed, divided by every check we attempted, per region. Not interpolated, not smoothed, and never computed for a region with zero recorded samples.

RegionChecks passingProbes recorded
US-East98.97%584
US-West92.46%451
Europe94.39%410
Asia-Pacific92.56%242

Their declared record

OverDrive's own incident history, taken from their public status feed. This is their account of what happened, not our check reading.

Libby users unable to add cards, borrow or open books, or sync their shelfAll systems operational
Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC to Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC (0 min)resolved
their latest update (Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC): There was a brief Libby outage causing users to be unable to add cards, borrow or open books, or sync their shelf.
Issue returning Kindle books earlyMinor incident
Oct 28, 2026, 4:05 PM UTC to Oct 30, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC (2d 2h)resolved
their latest update (Oct 30, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC): OverDrive and Amazon have resolved the issue impacting the early return of Kindle books.
Search errorsMinor incident
Oct 13, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC to Oct 13, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC (7 min)resolved
their latest update (Oct 13, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Audiobook playback issuesAll systems operational
Oct 9, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC to Oct 9, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC (0 min)resolved
their latest update (Oct 9, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC): A small percentage of audiobook users may have experienced playback issues or errors from 10/8/2026 at 11:10 PM through 10/9/2026 at 8:55 AM.
Users may experience issues with bookshelf synchronization, borrowing titles, opening borrowed titles, and library card authentication in Libby & Sora.Partial outage
Sep 15, 2026, 8:21 PM UTC to Sep 15, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC (49 min)resolved
their latest update (Sep 15, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Users are unable to borrow or place holdsAll systems operational
Aug 23, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC to Aug 23, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC (6 min)resolved
their latest update (Aug 23, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Libby outage caused authentication, borrowing, and shelf syncing issuesAll systems operational
Aug 18, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC to Aug 18, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC (0 min)resolved
their latest update (Aug 18, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC): There was a brief Libby outage from 9:06 to 9:19 AM EDT causing multiple failures throughout the app including signing in, borrowing, placing holds, opening titles, and Shelf syncing. This outage has been resolved, and we continue to monitor performance.
Method Learning (Libby/Sora Extra): users cannot access the servicePartial outage
Aug 3, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC to Aug 3, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC (6h 11m)resolved
their latest update (Aug 3, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Listen playback errorsPartial outage
Jul 26, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC to Jul 26, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC (28 min)resolved
their latest update (Jul 26, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Libby app library card authentication is downAll systems operational
Jun 23, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC to Jun 23, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC (2h 7m)resolved
their latest update (Jun 23, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.

Showing the 10 most recent of 50 incidents OverDrive has declared in the history we hold.

These entries are OverDrive's own declarations, taken from their public status feed, shown separately from our own check readings. Their page publishes what they choose to publish: an incident missing here means they did not declare one, not that nothing happened, and an incident here is their account, not our measurement. Neither record ever changes the other.

OverDrive's own status feed works, so its declared incidents are the record and our probe events are not listed or counted. Our check results by region are above, as a reading beside the statement.

Full detail on what a probe does and does not prove is in the methodology page.