Dread going to the library in bad weather? Sick of paying library fines? Try Freading instead.
Freading is an electronic library service that New Westminster Public Library has recently added to its eLibrary services. It joins Library To Go for ebooks and audiobooks, Zinio for emagazines, and OneClick Digital for audiobooks.
You can access Freading at nwpl.freading.com from the comfort of home any time of the day or night.
To download ebooks from Freading, you need a New Westminster library card, and must reside in the city.
Freading ebooks are downloaded via a token system. You have a weekly allotment of five tokens, which accumulate for four weeks, and then are reset. When you choose a book, the amount of tokens is deducted from your account. You may check out a Freading ebook for 14 days. There are no fines or charges, and once the 14 days have expired, you can renew a book by searching for the title again.
Some popular devices that are compatible with Freading ebooks are Windows or Mac computers, Apple iPad or iPhone, Android tablets or smart-phones, and ereaders such as Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo and Kindle Fire.
You can download the Freading app for portable devices through the Freading website or directly from the iTunes store or Google Play. For both Apple and Android-based devices, you must first use a browser to access nwpl.freading.com and then download the ebook into the Freading application. Direct downloading from within the app is not possible. If you have Overdrive Media Console already working on your device, you can also choose to open the ebook download with Overdrive instead of the Freading app.
With most ereaders, the ebooks can be downloaded to your computer and transferred to your ereader through the Adobe Digital Editions software.
For more information on Freading, visit nwpl. freading.com/questions.
