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Monday
Jun242013

Zinio the public library card hook?

I pretty much just stopped reading print magazines a few years ago. Not sure why, but when once we subscribed to half a dozen, we were down to just Newsweek at home and when that stopped coming out in print, that was it. Maybe it was because the grandsons stopped selling magazine subscriptions as a fund raisers.

But over the last couple weeks I've read Mental Floss, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Bicycling, Men's Health, Newsweek, and a couple popular computer magazines. But they were on the tablet, downloaded from my regional public library system.

All I needed to get them was a library card and some patience in getting things set up.

OK, for thousands, if not millions, this probably not news. But I find it exciting because it may become the hook that gets a lot of our kids and families interested in getting a public library card this fall when the schools and public libraries will make a big enrollment push. 

We've got a lot of iPads coming into the district this next fall and since these magazines are downloaded and can be read off-line, even families without home Internet access can use them. 

And who knows? Maybe, gulp, some of those kids may even wander into the public library itself!

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Reader Comments (2)

I just yesterday, (no foolin') set up a Zinio account, on my iPad mini.
Cosmic.

June 24, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJanet

Isn't there an expression "Great minds think alike"?

Doug

June 24, 2013 | Registered CommenterDoug Johnson

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