![]() ![]() KanopyKanopy offers thousands of films to stream for free via your public library, college, or university, but the trick is whether or not those institutions are affiliated with the service as it is reportedly an expensive proposition for them. Find out if your school library supports Sora here. It allows them to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, digital comics, picture books, textbooks, and more from their school's digital library, and can be accessed on smartphones, tablets, and desktops. SoraSpeaking of student libraries, Sora is OverDrive’s app for K-12 students. And the comics and ebooks interfaces offer similar functionality. You can search the vast library of titles from within the app, and if something is available, borrow it instantly. The audiobook interface allows you to listen at different speeds, drop bookmarks, jump ahead by chapter, and more. You can keep track of what you've borrowed via your "shelf," as well as titles you've put a hold on (in other words, titles you've requested that have currently been borrowed by other users). The Libby Interface Libby's ebook, audiobook, and digital comic interface is very simple to use. Find out if your library supports Libby here. Libby also allows its users to access its digital library via different library accounts (say if you have a library card and a student ID from your school library). (Hey, gotta start somewhere.) I’ve stuck to that resolution so far and 15 months later it hasn’t cost me a dime. I personally became addicted to Libby last year when I made a New Year’s resolution to listen to at least one audiobook per month. LibbyLibby’s app is much more intuitive than its parent app OverDrive, so for those who are just looking for ebooks, audiobooks, or digital comics, this is the way to go (again, if your library is affiliated with the service). In fact, the company offers a newer, slicker app called Libby which is specifically geared towards books… Find out if your library supports OverDrive here. On the flipside, there is no limit on how many titles you can borrow each month - and the service is great for free books online. ![]() And it does not appear to offer the ease of options to stream to your TV that hoopla does. The film and TV selection appears to be fairly limited when compared to hoopla (in my local library’s case anyway), with just over 600 titles available. “ OverDriveNot to be confused with the movie of the same name starring Scott Eastwood, OverDrive, like hoopla, provides access to ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV shows and music, working with a network of 45,000 libraries and schools in 78 different countries. (But keep in mind that owing to the localized nature of libraries, the content available to you could be different.) Find out if your library supports hoopla here. A quick perusal of the movies section indicates that Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s modern classic The Host is available for borrow, as are four Star Trek movies, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, and approximately 9,000 other movie titles. On the downside, hoopla limits how many titles you can borrow per month (I appear to be capped at seven). You can also stream hoopla via Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Android TV. The service says it has “hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily.” Titles can be streamed on desktop or via mobile app, and can also be downloaded to play offline. Hooplahoopla (with a small “h”!) is one of the more well-rounded digital media library services in that it offers not just free ebooks and audiobooks but also comics, movies, TV shows and music. ![]()
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