Get your favourite magazines online for free
Love Magazines? With over 5,000 magazines to choose from, you can get your favourite magazines in the ORL’s OverDrive collection and the Libby app. No holds, no waiting – check out as many magazines as you like!
Watch Tutorials or follow the steps below to get started.
Enjoy magazines on your browser
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.
Log in to the ORL’s OverDrive collection
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!
Find Magazines
Click on Subjects and select Magazines to view genres.
OR
Enter the name of the magazine in the search box located at the top of the screen, then select the magnifying glass.
Borrow Magazines
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.
Reading option notes
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.
Renewals
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.
Early Returns
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.