Using the Whitby Public Library s e-magazine Catalogue with Android

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1 Using the Whitby Public Library s e-magazine Catalogue with Android What s Zinio? 2 How Do I Use Zinio On My Android Tablet? 2 Download the Zinio App 2 Create a Zinio Account 3 Create a Whitby Public Library e-magazine Account 4 Browsing and Checking Out 5 Reading e-magazines 6 Deleting e-magazines 7 1

2 What s Zinio? Zinio is the Whitby Public Library s e-magazine service. Using the Zinio service thorugh the Whitby Public Library, you can checkout and download e-magazines from the Library s collection. Once you checkout and download the e-magazine, it never expires or needs to be returned. These instructions are for borrowing e-magazines with an Android device. However, you can also use a PC, laptop, or other mobile devices to borrow e-magazines. How Do I Use Zinio On My Android Tablet? To borrow e-magazines from the Whitby Public Library, you will need to create 2 accounts and download the Zinio app. One account is a Whitby Public Library e- magazine account, which you need to access our collection. The next account is a Zinio account, which is used to read the magazines. Download the Zinio App You must have the Zinio app in order to read e-magazines on your Android device. To download the Zinio app, visit the Play Store and search for Zinio using the search tool. Once you ve found it, tap on install and accept the app permissions. 2

3 Create a Zinio Account Once you have the app on your Android device, open the app and tap on the button with three blocks on the top right-hand corner of the screen. From the drop-down menu, tap on Settings. From the settings area under account, tap on join Zinio. Enter your address and a password, and then tap on OK. You will be brought back to the settings area. Under account you will see change password and sign out. This means you have successfully created a Zinio account. 3

4 Create a Whitby Public Library e-magazine Account Using the Internet browser on your device, visit the Whitby Public Library s website at and tap on the Zinio logo. Then tap on the Zinio logo to view the Library s e-magazine collection. Tap Create New Account in the top right-hand corner of the page. A box will pop up on your screen asking for your library card number. In this box, enter your library barcode number (without spaces). Then click on Next. The next box will ask you for your first and last name, your address and a password. You must use the same address you used for your Zinio account. We suggest you also use the same password so it is easy to remember. Enter this information into the corresponding boxes and then tap on Create Account. 4

5 Browsing and Checking Out The e-magazine collection is listed in alphabetical order. You can also search for a specific magazine using the Title Search box, or a genre of magazines using the Genre drop down menu. Once you have found a magazine title you would like to borrow, tap on the cover. The next page will show you the most recent issue at the top and available back issues below. To borrow the current issue, tap on the checkout button next to the magazine cover. To borrow a back issue, tap on the cover of the back issue and then on complete checkout. You will receive a message letting you know that the e-magazine has successfully been checked out. Note: If you are reading the e-magazine on your Android device, do not tap on Start Reading to read your e-magazine. To read your e-magazine you will use the Zinio app using the instructions below. 5

6 Reading e-magazines To read the e-magazines that you have checked out, go to the Zinio app. Tap on the My Library button, which looks like an open book and can be found along the top of the app screen. As soon as you open the My Library area, the e-magazines that you have checked out will begin to download to the device, so long as the device is connected to a wireless Internet network. To read an e-magazine, simply tap on the cover image. Swipe the screen from right to left to advance pages. Pinch your thumb and forefinger (or double-tap the screen) to zoom in. Spread your thumb and forefinger apart (or double-tap the screen) to zoom out. If you tap the screen, page spreads and page numbers will appear at the bottom for quick navigation. You will also see a flag at the top of the screen that you can tap on to create a bookmark. Next to the bookmark button is a button with three dots. When you tap on it you have the option to see a full page overview of the e-magazine, the table of contents as well as your bookmarks for this e-magazine. 6

7 Tap the screen again to make this navigation pane disappear. To go to a different e-magazine, tap on the Zinio logo in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Deleting e-magazines Because magazine issues take up storage space on your device, you may want to delete downloaded magazines that you ve already read. To delete an e-magazine, open the Zinio app and tap on the My Library button, which looks like an open book and can be found along the top of the app screen. Here you ll see all of the e-magazines that are downloaded to your tablet. To delete one or more e- magazine issues, tap again on the My Library button. This will show a drop-down menu. From the menu, tap on manage library. 7

8 All of the e-magazine issues now have an X in the middle of them. Tap on the X s to remove e-magazines from your library. You will get a message to confirm the deletion. To confirm, tap on continue. When you re finished deleting e-magazine issues, tap on done in the top right-hand corner of the screen. 8