Love Magazines? With over 3000 magazines to choose from, you can now get your favourite magazines in the ORL's OverDrive collection.
No holds, no waiting – check out as many magazines as you like!
Watch Tutorial or follow the steps below to get started.
Checkout and read magazines on the internet browser of your computer, laptop, or mobile device.
A mobile app is also available so that you can enjoy magazines on your smartphone or tablet. Jump down to Enjoying magazines on the Libby App.
Go to https://orl.overdrive.com
Select Sign in at the top right corner.
Enter your library card number (no spaces) and PIN code and select Sign In. You are ready to borrow magazines with just a couple of clicks!
Click on Subjects and select Magazines to view genres.
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Enter the name of the magazine in the search box located at the top of the screen, then select the magnifying glass.
Magazines are always available to borrow!
To read a sample of the magazine, see its description, or to find similar magazines you may like, select the 3-dot icon next to the title, or click on the cover image of the magazine.
To check out older issues of a magazine, click on its cover image then Select Another Issue and choose one from the expanded menu.
Select Borrow to check-out the magazine. Change the lending period (7, 14, or 21 days) before selecting Borrow again in the pop-up window.
In the SUCCESS! window, click Select Read now in browser. The magazine will open in a new tab in your web browser ready to read.
Bookmark this tab or find the magazine again on your Loans page under My account on the ORL’s OverDrive site.
Check out as many as you like! Magazines do not count toward the 10 title check out limit for digital books.
When reading in the browser, article view is not available for magazines. It is only available on the Libby App.
Magazines borrowed on the browser cannot be downloaded for offline reading or transferred to eReaders.
You can renew a magazine within 3 days of the end of its lending period. Since magazines are always available, you can also borrow the magazine again at any time.
Magazines are automatically removed from your library account on its due date. You can return them early, too:
Go to your Loans page found under My account on the ORL’s OverDrive site.
Select Return beneath the Magazine.
Don’t already have the Libby App for downloading eBooks and Audiobooks?
Get the Libby App for free from your app store, available for:
Note: The Libby app is not available to download for Windows devices. You can use Libby in your web browser at libbyapp.com and enjoy books and magazines online.
When you first open the Libby App, follow the on screen prompts to add your library name, Okanagan Regional Library, and to add your library card number (no spaces), and your PIN. (Unsure of your PIN? Reset your PIN code online if your email address is associated with your library account).
After your information is entered, the ORL’s OverDrive collection will open in the Libby App.
When you open the Libby App, or when you tap the Library link at the bottom left of the app screen, you will see the ORL’s OverDrive collection.
tap the Search icon (Magnifying Glass) at the bottom of the screen and enter the title, author, or topic.
To browse through collection, tap the Library icon (Library Card), then tap on a featured subject or list.
You can also find magazines by browsing and filtering lists by format, using the advanced search option, or by setting an app-wide format preference .
After completing a search, tap [number] magazines at the top of a list or search results to see only magazines.
This option can be used if you only want to find and read magazines on the Libby App
Tap on the cover image of the magazine if you want to see descriptions, samples, or older issues.
Tap Borrow or the blue rectangle to check-out the magazine.
On the next screen, confirm or change your loan period. Tap the underlined loan period link and select the new loan period (7, 14, or 21 days - The loan period you choose will also be used for the next magazine or book you borrow).
Tap Borrow! to confirm.
On the You have borrowed screen, you have three option you can choose
Use a Notify Me tag so the app can let your know when new issues of a magazine are available, here's how:
The Libby App will prompt you to add other magazines to this tag when you borrow or return them.
If you are on a Wi-Fi connection, your magazine gets downloaded to your Shelf (indicated by the Bookstack icon) immediately. Tap Open Magazine to start enjoying it right away.
If your magazine has not already downloaded, you can do so from the Shelf screen:
Once the download is complete, tap Open in Libby and enjoy!
If your magazine has a Download icon (cloud and arrow) next to it, that means it is not yet downloaded and you can read or listen to it over an internet connection (Wi-Fi recommended).
This option is useful if you want to save space on your mobile device. Just tap the cover image to start reading!
You can open individual articles and adjust text size and lighting settings for most magazines (these options may not be available for all magazines).
You can pinch in or out to change the zoom levels or tap on the center of the screen, then tap on the Zoom icon (a circle over the word zoom).
The Libby App does not currently have text to speech functionality for magazines, though OverDrive is considering this feature for future development.
The item’s new loan period begins the day of the renewal.
Reading Magazines on the Libby App
Reading Magazines on your browser
Call us at 1-844-649-8127.
Email help@orl.bc.ca, in your email, please include:
Note: If your ORL card has expired or you have outstanding late fees of $20.00 or more, you'll be unable to borrow from this collection. You can pay fees online. To renew an expired card, call your library branch.