The Sewing Place
Resources => Publications => Topic started by: dolcevita on April 27, 2021, 12:12:59 PM
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This is for UK members and apologies if I've posted about it before. If you are a member of your public library (you can join online) you can put an app on your phone/tablet/PC and access a huge amount of digital magazines (and newspapers from all over the world) for free. There is no return date on them, either, so you can keep hold of them for as long as you like. There is a craft section with 188 different magazines, many of them appear to be Australian, with an extensive choice for knitting and crochet, as well as embroidery. AND QUILTING - FREE QUILTING MAGAZINES @Iminei
You will need your library card number and then an app called Libby. Libby will allow you to browse and search for whatever you want. Check it out, it's well worth a look and there are many other subjects, too.
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The app seems not to be available for PCs, which is annoying! I shall go and charge up my tablet.
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However, you can use it in your browser (https://libbyapp.com/welcome) - just about to try it out. :thumbsup:
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I entered via the browser and was not asked for a library card.
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I entered via the browser and was not asked for a library card.
Even better! I only had to enter my details once, so it's not onerous even if you do need to.
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Cool! Yet another rabbit hole for me. Thank you.
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Thanks @dolcevita. Used to use Libby some years ago or books and audiobooks till our library went over to BorrowBox which isn’t as good.
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Thank you have just applied to local library
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@dolcevita Libby is international. My library has it too. One thing is each library system chooses how much to make available from the full collection.
Check out the other online resources available at your library. Most have expanded them due to the pandemic. It's very much an underutilized resource.
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@dolcevita Libby is international. My library has it too. One thing is each library system chooses how much to make available from the full collection.
Check out the other online resources available at your library. Most have expanded them due to the pandemic. It's very much an underutilized resource.
Thanks, yes I've used the online library resources for some years now as the range available is incredible. Language learning, classical music as well as print publications. I recently showed my OH how to access his favourite trashy newspapers on a tablet, which he now regards as his!
It's astonishing just how much content there is, it's just a case of having enough time for it all!
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I've just tried it - using Mac Laptop and Firefox and it allowed me in. I have Simply Sewing magazine on loan for 14 days.
I have Medway Library card with a pin number which I have used occasionally to access AncestryLibrary from home during lockdown. I'm really pleased that I got the pin-number updated not long before the first lockdown started as I don't often use the library card; most times when I was using AncestryLibrary at the archives it during my volunteer sessions and so was with their log-in rather than my own.
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Well I was going great guns... even found my library card (not used since ????) but then it wanted a PIN ...!!
Pin?
Pin?? :angry:
PIN??? I dont have a pin for my bleeding library card!
Throws card across the room and Stomps out :rant:
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@Iminei give your library a ring and see if they’ll give you one over the phone.
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Here in Medway the archives and the libraries are all part of the same system. I've had a library card forever though haven't used it much for borrowing books in the last ten or so years. The same card is needed to access the computers (archives or library) and it was the archives which issued a PIN to me. As I said before I've only used the archive's computers for my own use occasionally and the last time I tried the PIN had expired so they had to re-activate it again. That was only a few months before the lockdowns started so it was still working when we were told that AncestryLibrary could be accessed from home if you had a PIN with your card. I do know of a couple of people who didn't have a valid PIN and couldn't access it, but I don't know if they managed to get one remotely. For those who are interested AncestryLibrary had worldwide records; my personal Ancestry.co.uk account only allows me to view UK records.
As for libbyapp.com it's great that it's free but as always with ebooks and emagazines they are fine for the things you just read once and that's it but for anything with instructions or patterns I much prefer a paper version.
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Just had to visit my library to see why I couldn’t log in. Apparently our library has emailed members to let them know that their password requires changing from for numbers to six. I hadn’t had that email and neither has the librarian who was serving me. We changed it to a six digit one and now I’m in so I’ll explore later.
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@BrendaP I was glad for this thread yesterday. It had me double checking what is currently available online and I was reminded about the AncestryLibrary. Need to take a look while it's still available online. In library it's only available at the main library downtown Fresno in what is now a very sketchy area. To think I would go there alone or with mom at night as a teenager.
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Turns out I need a PIN, so will be dropping into the library when I go to the town centre today.
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I went to my library ... They've gone into Covid Overload and I eventually manged to ascertain without going in that Ive fallen off their system and have to reapply for a new card, which I assume will come with the necessary pin.
She said I could apply on-line or have a paper form to complete and as I was actually THERE I filled it out on the bonnet of my car and went to hand it in ...
BIG Mistake ... HUGE!
Could I hand the form back to her ... Nope ...You now have to post any returned books and my disease ridden application form through a letterbox and after 72 hours they will deign to start processing it/them :rant:
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I don't know why, but my town centre library is CLOSED. Just as well I didn't make a special trip. However, my library card is who knows how old and I might need a new one and not just a pin. I'll send an email.
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@Iminei , shred the form and fill out the online version. There, taken care of. :thumbsup:
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I had several books out of the library when we went into first lockdown & was concerned about fines so checked on line each month. They were automatically renewed so forgot about it. A few days after they reopened in October I returned my books to the bin outside & again thought nothing of it. The next time I went online they had me down for a £28 fine & had blocked my account!!!
I sent an extremely scathing email & basically told them what they could do with their fine & have only been online once since. My card is now unblocked but the fine remains. Haven't tried any of their services since :devil:
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I like that I can still access my "old" library (which I used before I moved here) and my new local suffolk library. different collections in each. I've been catching up on old Piecework magazines. I also found a craft magazine from South Africa!
for magazines and patterns I mostly read on my phone but if I needed to actually knit from one, my phone would be too small to peer at, so I'd have to go to desktop, and probably screen shot and print it from there? My project queue is already long enough that I haven't added to it through Libby!
I also like that you can change the skin color of the little Libby girl logo. That just warms my heart.
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With Amazon Prime magazines on my tablet I take screenshots and I can then print the instructions etc out directly, or send them to my laptop and save them there so that I can read a larger version.
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Thank you I now have my new library card plus pin, all done on the internet and have downloaded Libby app and have just finished reading this weeks radio times.
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... have just finished reading this weeks radio times.
That's where I want to make a saving. :D
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I had to get a new card since it's been over two years since I used the library. I have a temporary PIN that allows me access to digital content and will get a physical card when the branch re-opens.
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Thank you @dolcevita i now have this up and running and have just browsed the craft magazines, it’s amazing everything I love is available, just wondering when I am going to have time to read them all.
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As i have been living in Germany for 26 years I have not been to the local library in my home town USA. This summer when vacationing and visiting my parents,i was asked to pick up a book my father had ordered at the local library.
Shocked!!! :faints: The number of books are few, computers are there and there is no card catalog!!! The library seems so uninviting - i remember the happy hours looking up entries in the card catalog or just perusing books with subjects i have not been introduced to.
Absolutely no debth of thought - depressing.
If i wanted to lend a movie.. good. If i wanted a book on physics, Shakespear order only. The library was a place for thought, research and discovery. Now i see almost no purpose.
Very sad indeed!
WD
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Such a shame @William. Our libraries have had to change with the times. I have nothing against that. They still have books! I spent a lot of time in libraries when I was younger.
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Our local Library was a source of solace to me when I was growing up....(in the 1960's)
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Yes card catalogues are a thing of the past - redundant because it's all on-line. @annieeg like you I found great solace in the local library as a youngster - I confess that some of it might have been because I was allowed to get a bar of Duncan's whole nut chocolate from a machine outside a shop on the way home. Can't remember if this was for every weekly visit but in any case libraries= chocolate! :P
When I was doing my PhD DH said I came home smelling of old books. I love the smell of old books almost as much as chocolate.
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Thanks @dolcevita . I haven’t been in my library for years, so I registered online ( very easy @Iminei ) and have had a look at audio books, which I love to listen to when sewing. I had to scrabble around to find free ones on Audible, but this looks like a great service. You can also read all sorts of newspapers free. :D
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Me too @annieeg @Tamnymore . The librarian had a word with my dad. - she didn't think Asimov was suitable for a 10 year old. Dad was highly amused and suggested she encourage me!
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I went to our small library a couple of weeks ago to look for a book on gemstones. ... I didnt actually enter the stacks the librarian was very helpful and looked on her computer to discover that they had nothing but another library did so she ordered it and two days later I was told it was ready for me to collect.
I have 'libby' on my laptop (the old Heath Robinson one) but havent worked out how to use it ... maybe I should open it up first?
Can you put the books you borrow onto your kindle?
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@Iminei There is a convoluted process to go through before you can access Libby on Kindle. It is possible and may be something to ask the nice person that is going to set up the new tablet for you ;)
BB
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@Sheilago Youtube have quite a few free audiobooks.