Update for Zinio for Libraries

A recent update to the Zinio for Libraries app has included a Checkout magazines link at the bottom of the screen, visible upon opening the app.

Tapping this link will open up a browser and transport you to the library's Zinio Magazine Collection page to select the magazines you would like to borrow (checkout). You will also be asked to sign in with your Zinio account login the first time.

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Exciting New eMagazines added to Library's Zinio account

We have just added the following eMagazines to our Zinio account - these are all available now and ready for you to download and read on your PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device.


Australian House & Garden
Australian Knitting
Australian Women's Weekly
Belle
Clean Eating Magazine – Australian Edition
Complete Wedding Melbourne
Cosmopolitan Australia
Craft from Woman's Weekly
Dumbo Feather - interview magazine
Earth Garden
Good Health
Gourmet Traveller
Instyle UK
KRASH
Money Australia
Prima UK
Real Living - Australia
recipes+
T3
Wallpaper
Wheels

You can download as many as you want and keep them for as long as you like!

Happy eReading!

New additions and some welcome returns to eMagazines

We have recently added a whole new swag of eMagazines to our account with Zinio. In the list below you can find such gems as Australian Home Beautiful, New Scientist and Country Life. All eMagazines can be downloaded and kept indefinitely on your iPad, tablet or PC for your viewing and reading pleasure. There are now over 250 titles in the collection all of which you can access for free from home.

You will need to register with Zinio to download the eMagazines - the following help pages explain how to do this. Zinio User Guide.

(inside) interior design review
Architecture Australia
Artichoke
Australian Home Beautiful
Australian Ironman Magazine
Australian Mountain Bike
Australian Natural Health Magazine
Australian Shape
Australian Sky & Telescope
Australian Yoga Journal
Better Homes and Gardens Australia
Blitz Martial Arts Magazine
Bride to Be Australia
Cosmopolitan
Country Homes & Interiors
Country Life
Cyclist Australia
Desktop - The Culture of Design
Fight Magazine - Australia
Girlfriend Australia
Good Housekeeping
Grand Designs Australia
Harper's Bazaar
HELLO! magazine UK
Houses
Inside Out Christmas
Inside Out Renovating & Decorating Guide
Macworld Australia
Marie Claire - UK
Marie Claire Australia
Men's Health Australia
Mollie Makes
Mollie Makes Handmade Wedding
Mollie Makes Home
New Scientist
Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition
OUT
Oxygen Magazine Australian Edition
PC & Tech Authority
Practical Parenting Australia
SBS Feast
Simply Knitting
Smith Journal
The Simple Things
The Week
Woman & Home
Woman's Weekly
Women's Health and Fitness Magazine
World Soccer
Your Family Tree
Your Family Tree Presents Discover your ancestor's occupation
Your Family Tree Presents: Get Started in Family History
Your Family Tree presents: Get started in Military family history
Your Garden

Happy eReading, Paul.

Beat the heat - download free magazines from home

Zinio, the world's largest newsstand, offers full colour, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from the library's collection of popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.

• Current Issues — New issues are released simultaneously with the print edition - many are available before they arrive at the library and are ready for immediate download. Many of the magazines have back issues available which you can also download.
• Easy browsing — Browse the library's collection of titles one at a time, search for your favourite magazines by title or use the convenient category feature to find new magazines which meet your interests. There are over 200 titles to choose from.
• Manage your collection — Using the personal account you will create, you will have the opportunity to checkout the magazines you choose and read them instantly on your computer (both PC and Mac) or access the content on a portable media device. (Note: viewing options, including the ability to download or view the content while online, may differ based on the device and/or magazine publisher)
• No limits — Check out as many issues as you want and keep them in your account as long as you wish. 

You can watch a tutorial on how to set up your accounts here.

Happy eReading, Paul.

Where's the Zinio app for iPhone & iPad?

If you've decided to leap into downloading magazines via our library website and you're looking for the Zinio app for iPhone/iPad in the App Store please note the following message from Zinio:

"Following an update iTunes released yesterday, the Zinio iPhone & iPad app has been temporarily removed from the app store due to an unforeseen compatibility issue.

This will NOT affect borrowers who already have the Zinio app installed on their device, only new users who search for the app in their App Store.

Zinio are working to resolve this issue as a priority.

We'll let you know as soon as the app is available again on the app store to download."

Cheers, webgurl

Zinio Magazines - good news and bad news

Greetings everybody we just wanted to bring you up to speed with what is happening with the Zinio eMagazine online resource.





First the good news - we will be renewing our subscription to the resource. There will be 217 titles available which our members can download and keep on their device be it a PC, laptop, smart phone, iPad or tablet computer. We have had over 30,000 downloads since September 2012!

Now the bad news - a number of magazine publishers have chosen to remove their titles from the list of magazines available to libraries through Zinio.... and of course several of these titles are amongst the most popular with our members. Obviously the publishers were not making enough money from members clicking through and deciding to purchase a subscription for themselves. Here is the list of soon to be removed titles:

Australian Home Beautiful
Australian Men's Fitness
Australian Shape
Australian Sky & Telescope
Australian Yoga Journal
BBC Easycook
BBC Good Food
BBC olive
Better Homes and Gardens Australia
Bride to Be Australia
Brides
Business Traveller
Classic & Sports Car
Clean Eating
Coast
Combat Aircraft Monthly
Conde Nast Traveller UK
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan UK
Country Life
Country Living UK
Countryfile Magazine
Diabetic Living Australia
Digital Arts
DIVA
Easy Living
Esquire UK
F1 Racing UK
Girlfriend Australia
Glamour UK
Good Housekeeping UK
GQ UK
Gramophone Magazine
Harper's Bazaar UK
Harper's Magazine
HELLO! magazine
House and Garden
House Beautiful UK
iPad & iPhone User
Italia magazine
Lonely Planet Magazine: Dream Trips
Macworld Australia
Marie Claire Australia
Men's Health Australia
Military History Monthly
Motorsport News
New Scientist
Oxygen
Practical Parenting Australia
Science
Whole Living
Your Garden

As with all things digital there is a chance that the magazine publishers may choose to put their titles back into the Zinio for Libraries pool and we will be able to resubscribe to them. In the meantime several of the deleted Australian publications have an equivalent UK or US publication which we have subscribed to - eg: 'Marie Claire Australia' will go but we still have access to 'Marie Claire - US' and 'Marie Claire - UK'.

Our apologies but we are powerless in this circumstance.

Paul.

UPDATE 2 Oct 2013 - there is currently a problem with Zinio as there are only 3 magazine titles available. We have contacted them and hope to have this rectified soon.

eMagazines for eAster

The library is going to be closed for 4 days over the Easter break and it looks like it's going to be cold outside so what better time to download an eMagazine and curl up somewhere cosy and read in comfort.

The library has subscribed to a service called Zinio that allows you to download and keep the latest issue of over 250 Australian and international magazines. The most popular title in the collection so far has been 'Better Homes and Gardens' closely followed by 'Australian Good Taste' and 'The New Scientist'.

In order to use Zinio you will need to set up 2 accounts: an ERL Zinio account to select your magazines and a Zinio.com account to read them.

Setting up an ERL Zinio account
Connect to the ERL Zinio page using your internet browser.
Click the Create Account button.
Enter your library card number, click Validate.
Enter your email address, password and name.
Click Create Account (a validation email is sent to your nominated email account).
Check your email account for an email from RB Digital Portal.
Click on the link in the email to activate your account.

Select eMagazines
Connect to the ERL Zinio page using your internet browser.
Login with your email address and password.
The covers of all available magazines from the library will display
Click on an eMagazine to place it in your ERL Zinio account.
A new window opens asking you to create a Zinio.com account.

Set up a Zinio.com account to read and manage eMagazines
Once you have created an ERL Zinio account you must create a Zinio.com account.
Enter the same name, email and password that you used for your ERL Zinio account.
You will be asked to fill in a personal preferences form but none of the responses are obligatory. Complete the form and click Submit.
If you already have a Zinio account click Sign In Here and sign in to your account.
The eMagazine you selected will be in your Zinio account. Click on it to start reading.

Read eMagazines
Go to Zinio.com
Click on Log In at the top right of the screen and enter your email and password.
Click on Read to view the eMagazines you have selected.
Click on the eMagazine cover to open and read.

Important note follows..... To get new issues of a title you must log in to your ERL Zinio account and then add the new issue to your Zinio.com account.

Zinio Apps
As well as reading eMagazines through your web browser you can also read them through apps for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry. These are available at the bottom of the ERL Zinio page.

Read eMagazines Offline 
You must be online to select eMagazines and download them.
Open your ERL Zinio account and select an eMagazine.
Open the Zinio app on your mobile device.
Select an eMagazine to download.
When the download is complete you can read that eMagazine offline.
Only eMagazines that have been downloaded through the Zinio app can be read offline.

Additional Information
There is no loan period for Zinio eMagazines.
There is no limit to the number of eMagazines you can download.
Your Zinio.com account is personal and cannot be viewed or checked by library staff.
You can use your Zinio.com account to purchase other eMagazine titles from the commercial Zinio site.

eNjoy your eAster eMagazine eReading!!

Cheers, ePaul.

Read Magazines on your eReader with Zinio

Alrighty, folks - we are very proud to release the latest in our online resources... **drum roll**...Zinio!

Zinio is an online magazine platform that allows you to download your favourite magazines right into your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and Blackberry Playbook. With over 200 titles to choose from, with another 100 to be added over the next couple of months - there is plenty to help keep boredom at bay.

Zinio comes with a number of fantastic features:

• Zinio will notify you when the next edition of your magazine is available to download (we love this!), so you'll never miss out on an issue ever again.
• There is no limit to the number of magazines you "subscribe" to.
• There are no due dates and therefore no overdue charges with using Zinio. Also, once you have downloaded your magazine copy, it is there to view whenever you want.
• No more waiting lists (how good is that??). You can download the latest issue straight away. Zinio works on a multi-user model, so an unlimited amount of people can access the same publication simultaneously. Hooray!

Want to get started? Simply login to Zinio with your library account and follow the prompts. There is also a User Guide and a Video Tutorial available, too. Soon you'll be reading your favourite magazines wherever you are - in bed, on the train, or even the salon.