Free Magazines Direct to Your IPAD or Kindle Through Your Library!

FREE MAGAZINES DIRECT TO YOUR IPAD, KINDLE, IPHONE, OR COMPUTER!

I haven't written in a while due to the extreme adorableness of our 7 month old Squishy Face. It's hard to focus on blogging when there are chubby little cheeks staring up at you, begging to be kissed.

Family Circle Magazine: Digital Download- Free through your local library!

That being said, I was SO EXCITED about this that I had to shout it from the roof tops! Seriously, If I thought I could get on my roof without falling off and breaking my back, I would totally do that. Thankfully, blogging is safer and reaches more people.



Okay... This applies to you if you own a Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry Playbook, PC, Mac or Windows.



Zinio is a site that you can purchase magazines, either a single issue, or you can get a subscription. The Magazines are sent straight to your Zinio app in your device and you can look at the magazine there. In the iPad or Kindle Fire, they look amazing. Even better than an actual magazine because I can take screen shot photos of something that I like, and then pin the photo to pinterest so I can remember it later.


Here's the kicker.... if you have a library card, most libraries will now let you do this for FREE!
The library has it's own Zinio website with the magazines that they have purchased for library card holders. When this launched, I was cautiously optimistic expecting an old copy of farmers almanac. When I signed on and was bombarded with every popular magazine I could ever imagine, I was ridiculously excited. Needless to say, I spent last night downloading and reading about 6 magazines.

Here's a few examples of the magazines available in Prince William County:

(Each library chooses which magazines to "stock", so your library may have a different selection)

Better Homes and Gardens Special Publications (Right now, they have 100 Best Cookies, Big Style for Small Rooms, and Real Rooms)

Apple Magazine

 

American Photo

 

Backpacker

 

Country Home

 

Clean Eating

 

Consumer Reports

 

Country Living

 

Cosmopolitian

 

Do It Yourself

 

Women's Day

 

Women's Day Special Publications (Easy Meals, Eating Light)

 

Every Day with Rachel Ray

 

Family Circle

 

Food Network Magazine

 

Forbes

 

Handyman

 

Good Housekeeping

 

Martha Stewart Living

 

 

 Martha Stewart Weddings

 

Men's Health

 

Men's Fitness

 

Newsweek

 

Oprah Magazine

 

Natural Health

 

OK! Magazine

 

National Geographic

 

Parenting (Early Years)

 

Parenting (School Years)

 

Prevention

 

Popular Science

 

Redbook

 

Seventeen

 

Shape

 

Reader's Digest

 

Shop Smart

 

Taste of Home

 

Taste of Home Special Publications (Current one is the Cooking School Cookbook)

 

Weight Watchers

 

Womens Health

 

Yoga

 

US Weekly

The best part? That's only a SELECTION of the magazines! There's tons more!


The instructions for how to download your magazines for free are different depending on your library. See your library website for more information.

For Prince William County, Virginia - Go either to your library website and click "Download Magazines", or I can save you the step- click here.  (This is Prince William Libraries Personal Zinio Page- Head to library website to get the webpage for your library).

You'll have to sign up for RBDigital, it's quick, easy, and free. You'll need your library ID number and password. Then choose a magazine to download (from what I can tell, you can only download current issues), It will redirect you to the Zinio site. Register and create a username and password (I would make them the same so you can remember them). This is free and quick as well. Once you click on the magazine you want, it adds it to your reading list for Zinio.

Sign into your Zinio App (in whatever device you plan on using), then select the magazine you want to read from your reading list. Then chuckle to yourself about how everyone else paid $3.99 for what you're about to read for free.

Important: There are a few limitations that I can see now, which may change as I use it. It would appear that you would need to download each current issue (you can't sign up for subscriptions). You will also have to choose and add magazines to your reading list from the webpage, and not within the app in order for them to be free. As far as I can tell, there is no time limit to keep/read the magazines. The ones that I downloaded two nights ago are still there today and it doesn't list an expiration date anywhere.

So, go cancel all of your magazine subscriptions and thank me later:)

US Weekly- Digital Download Free through your local library

Cosmopolitan: Digital Download free through your local library!

Taste of Home- Digital Download for free through your local library!