Destiny Discover Reviews

First off I love that patrons can search, checkout, and read all in one app. However, I wish they would’ve included the features the Destiny Discover shortcut has like new releases, popular titles, ebooks, and audiobooks all displayed with book covers. This would certainly help younger readers and readers who are undecided about what they want to check out. As it is, a patron would have to know what they are looking for and type it into the search bar. Also, DestinyDiscover is defaulted to search ebooks, and if the user isn’t aware of this, they will often come back with no results. Patrons that use this new app have to login since there is no option to search as a guest user, which again makes it difficult for younger users. As another reviewer pointed out, there is no option to place titles on hold. It would be helpful for Follett to update existing apps, rather than continue to release new apps, as it is confusing to most users to try and keep up with which app they need to use.

Not sure where to begin with DestinyDiscover. I am glad there are search and digital checkout features. However, no holds for digital or print is disappointing, no browsing features, like the ribbons on the online version, make DestinyDiscover cold and unappealing, and finally, to still need the Read app to listen to audiobooks is extremely frustrating. DestinyDiscover should not have been pushed out to schools until it could provide what students want and need.

This is much better than the version I had been using. Searches quickly and gives me basic information about titles. I use DestinyDiscover on my phone as I’m walking around the library helping students find books. I no longer have that sense of absolute dread that I had before tapping to open the previous “app” which was no more than a shortcut and NEVER worked efficiently or even correctly.

I know updates are coming but here’s what it still needs:
-Ability to place holds
-ability to browse titles or genres
- linked authors name in details to find more books by the same author
- default to “all materials” rather than “ebooks”

It would be nice to have:
- ability to access and create lists
- ability to edit recently read list (just because I open an ebook doesn’t mean I’ve read it.)

Again I’m using DestinyDiscover in the library as a handheld version of Destiny. I don’t expect all of the functionality of the desktop version but adding those suggested features would make DestinyDiscover more useful to librarians and patrons.

It seems the developers were going more for an ebook reader vibe. Most of my ebooks and audiobooks are housed on a different platform so my patrons can’t access the content through the Destiny Discover app.

This school librarian has been a Destiny customer for 20+ years. The first thing you guys have got to do to improve this is to hire school librarians to be consultants to get DestinyDiscover right. We have all waited far to long for you guys to get this right. For example, I’m trying to highlight on my book but I can’t if the line is to close to the edges where my finger picks up all the frame toolbars. Really?! It is these little things that keep kids from using these ebooks. Hire the consultants. It is time to make DestinyDiscover a priority for as my principal informed me this year, we don’t need a physical library anymore do we? (Yeah, don’t get me started.)

Thank you for bringing back the Destiny Discover app! It’s working great! I was able to easily and quickly open an ebook I already had checked out AND to find another one, as well as search in the print collection. Many, many thanks for getting this going again just as we’re about to return to school and needing an easy way for students to access our extensive ebook collection without having to read on a computer! ❤️👏🏻😺

Please add a hold button sooner rather than later. I will not direct any of my students or staff to download DestinyDiscover until the hold button is in place. I currently do not have ebooks or audiobooks, so until the hold button is added DestinyDiscover is useless to my users.

Idk why there are so many bad reviews I just got DestinyDiscover and it work just like it says it will it can get any books the school has and you can download them to the only problem is that most books are out so I have to have it one hold but they can’t control that

If you are using a school account, audiobooks and ebooks are available to check out and return online. Which I think is the best feature ever!

Without the option of putting a book on hold DestinyDiscover is not useful to me. Will it be added?

The filter system is crappy, and practically useless. It has like 12 subgenres, no nonfiction option or fantasy, or mystery or any of the larger genres, and each sub genre has less than a dozen books in the category.

Says unable to process your request and takes forever to load

When I try to select my school is says unable to process my request :( I can’t even use DestinyDiscover . I will definitely not be promoting this to my HS students until the bugs are worked out.

DestinyDiscover never worked and kept freezing my phone and I had to get a new phone because of this. It kept saying error and time request time out.

Can’t even get into DestinyDiscover . When selecting state, then school, I get the message “unable to process request”. Really, Follett? Again? I don’t understand why you can’t develop a good app.

Can’t put a hold on books from DestinyDiscover . No point in sharing it with students. Sigh.

My son gets as far as clicking READ on the title, when it comes up as restricted. When I click to allow, nothing happens.

I have tried every app that Follett puts out and I have never been able to get it to work. Error message every time.

Can’t even get through the sign in process. It won’t let you select your school to sign in.

Just downloaded this. All I get when I try to log in are error messages.

I would give it no stars if I could. I am so insulted by this inferior product. Don’t students deserve better?