Bring Zinio eMagazines With You On Vacation
Whether your vacation is spent relaxing at a cottage or a flying away to explore a new city, magazines are great to have along. If you will have your tablet or laptop with you, don't forget to stock up on free eMagazines before you leave.
Our Zinio eMagazines are free to borrow and download and do not need to returned after a specific period of time. You can keep them for as long as you want. No fines!
If you are new to our Zinio eMagazines collection, please have a look at the Getting Started with Zinio eMagazines for instructions on using this service.
Want to know what is available? Here are a few of the more than 600 magazines that are in the collection:
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We also have magazines in Chinese, French (Quebec and France), Italian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish (Spain and Mexico) and Vietnamese as well as English language magazines from India and the Philippines.
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7 thoughts on “Bring Zinio eMagazines With You On Vacation”
It would be great if we could use our library card number and pin to log into the Zinio account, like its possible for Overdrive. One library card number and pin to access digital services – please! 🙂
Thank you for the comment Kevin. I will pass along your request to the staff members who are our contacts with Zinio.
I’m a very grateful user of the Zinio service, but… While the Android app looks great and the downloads and image reproduction work well, and it has several excellent features, it seems to crash and then need restarting nearly every time and often several times during a reading session. This really spoils what would be an excellent reading app if it were stable.
It has a very low user rating on the Android Playstore site, as a result (so it’s not just me and my tablet). If you have contacts and some clout at Zinio, a push in the direction of app stability would be much appreciated.
Thank you for the feedback Jeff. I’m sorry that you are having so many problems with the Zinio app. I’ve passed along your feedback to our staff members who are communication with Zinio.
If you are using the Zinio for Libraries app, you may want to try the commercial ‘Zinio’ app. You will need to create an account with Zinio, using exactly the same email address as the one used for your TPL Zinio account. You can’then download and read your magazines on the app.
Thanks for replying so promptly. In fact the commercial app is what I was using, later discovered the “for Libraries” app but it had even worse user ratings at the Play Store.
As of today, September 15, the commercial app was automatically updated on my tablet, the old black icon is replaced by a white one and the old app was removed, had to log in again and all library-subscribed magazines were discontinued. As far as I can’tell anyway – library loans cannot be ordered on the new commercial app. I was forced to install the “Zinio for Libraries” in order to have my library subscriptions continued. As of now I have both the new commercial app and the new (huge 100 megabyte) library app on the tablet and am not sure if the commercial app could be safely uninstalled (since they both use the same login ID, and Zinio is in the business of managing commercial subscriptions, they may be interdependent).
At first use, the new Zinio for Libraries app seems to be caught up on my library subsscriptions, does everything it should and is not crashing continuously as the old commercial app did. Fingers crossed that future issues show up.
Thank you for the update Jeff. My apologies for not responding earlier, but I just returned from vacation.
I’m happy to hear that you are successfully using the Zinio for Libraries app. If you want, you can safely uninstall the Zinio commercial app. They are independent of each other.
FYI, I was able to use the updated commercial app to access newly checked out magazines. Perhaps Zinio was having some glitches right after it was available last week. If you try again, make sure you are looking at your list of 2015 magazines. The app can only display one year at a time.
Please let us know if you have any further problems or questions. If you contact us by the Contact Us link on library website, there always will be staff available to respond during business hours.
Enjoy your magazines!
On your advice I tried deleting the huge “Zinio for Libraries” app in favour of the much smaller new commercial Zinio app and it’s doing fine. Again much more stable than the pre-update version. Thanks again.