Dropping liquids after consonants (e.g. in words that ends with -ble, -dre, -tre, -fle etc.) is an extremely common feature of everyday pronunciation in French (Grevisse 14th ed., §36c). Pronouncing many final schwas would be the primary reason for the recognition of these consonants and is generally considered either an affectation or a dialectal feature.
In French it’s not the the re
or le
that is left unpronounced, but the final e
.
Pronouncing livre
is like pronouncing livr
. Some people may actually force the last consonant and you get a sound like livreu
.
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