Library adds free digital magazines

Springfield-Greene County Library District announced that library cardholders can now access more than 120 magazines on mobile devices and desktop computers.

The free service began Tuesday morning.

Digital magazines are provided through a third-party service from Recorded Books called Zinio, said Lisa Sampley, library director of collection services. “The model is similar to OverDrive,” a library ebook provider already used by SGCL. “We choose the content, and customers have access through a platform that Recorded Books/Zinio provides.”

Sampley said the library pays a standard fee for access to the Zinio platform, plus varying magazine subscription costs.

Unlike some library ebook platforms that only let one person use a digital product at a time, Zinio for Libraries grants multiple users access to the same magazines. Consequently, there are no holds, no checkout periods and no limit to the number of magazines users can download.

Titles include Better Homes & Gardens, Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek and National Geographic, among many others. Each page is reproduced in full color, and some titles include interactive elements like audio and video.

Zinio for Libraries is available at thelibrary.org/digital or on mobile app stores. Mobile apps are available for iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire and Android. Users can log in using their library card numbers, then create a user account with an email and password.

Library patrons who already use IndieFlix, a streaming-video service offered by SGCL, can use the same email and password to browse magazines on Zinio. Both are Recorded Books products.

Users can also download magazines to mobile devices for offline reading.

Time Inc. magazines People and Time aren’t on the digital list, though they’re available in print at the library’s 10 branches.

The library will continue to carry print editions of the 1,200 magazine and newspaper subscriptions currently available.

Springfield-Greene County Library Digital Magazines

Advocate

Allrecipes

Allure

American Craft

American Girl

AppleMagazine

Architectural Digest

Ask

Astronomy

Audubon Magazine

Aviation Week and Space Technology

Backpacker

Better Homes and Garden

Bicycling

Billboard Magazine

Bon Appetit

Brides

Car and Driver

Cloth Paper Scissors

Conde Nast Traveler

Cook’s Illustrated

Cosmopolitan

Country Living

Cricket

Details

Dig

Discover

Do It Yourself

Dr. Oz the good life

Dwell

Earth magazine

EatingWell

Economist

Elle

Elle Décor

ESPN

Esquire

Every Day with Rachael Ray

Faces

Family Circle

Family Handyman

Family Tree

Familyfun

Field and Stream

Food Network Magazine

Forbes

Glamour

Golf Digest

Good Housekeeping

GQ

Guitar Player

Harper’s Bazaar

Health & Fitness

HGTV Magazine

High Five

Highlights for Children

House Beautiful

INC

Kiplinger’s personal finance

Ladybug

Lucky

Macworld

Marie Claire

Martha Stewart Living

Men’s Fitness

Men’s Health

Mental Floss

Midwest Living

MORE

Mother Earth news

Mother Jones

Motor Trend

Muse

Nation

National Geographic Traveler

National Georgraphic

New Old House

New York Review of Books

New Yorker

Newsweek

O, the Oprah Magazine

OK

Organic Gardening

Outdoor Life

Outside

Oxygen

Parents

PC Gamer

PC World

Popular Mechanics

Popular Photography

Popular Science

Prevention

Reader’s Digest

Redbook

Road and Track

Runner’s World

Saveur

SELF

Seventeen

Shape

Sierra

Smithsonian

Sound and Vision

Spider

St. Louis Cardinals

Star

Successful Farming

Taste of Home

Taste of Home Holiday

Teen Vogue

Thrasher Skateboard

Town & Country

Traditional home

Vanity Fair

Vegetarian Times

Vogue

Weight Watchers

Wired

Woman’s Day

Women’s Heath

Writer

Yoga Journal