magazines

  • Read Magazines for Free with Flipster

    One of the downsides to grocery delivery, if you’re a magazine reader, is lack of access to impulse-buy reading material in the checkout line.  Those cover recipes on cooking magazines are a great way to get inspired in the kitchen. Celebrity gossip is an effective distraction on a rough day and can be a good… Continue reading

  • Free Access to Magazines and Newspapers through PressReader

    If you love magazines and newspapers but need to limit your personal subscriptions, or if you’re trying to keep up with current events via reputable sources without worrying about firewalls, you may be interested in a giant online periodical resource called PressReader that is available free to Seattle Public Library cardholders, through our website. Why… Continue reading

  • New Magazine Subscriptions: Part 2

    In last month’s New Magazine Subscription: Part 1 we explored some fresh new titles hitting our magazine shelves, covering everything from dogs to military history. An eclectic mix of new titles keep coming! Here are several more subscriptions that have recently started at the Central Library and at branches. Fantastic Man One of few men’s… Continue reading

  • New Magazine Subscriptions: Part 1

    We are excited to announce the start of several new print magazines subscriptions at the Central Library and at many branches! Thank you to all the patrons and staff who made suggestions over the last two years. You have helped our magazine collection remain current and a reflection of the many interests of our community.… Continue reading

  • There’s a new New Yorker waiting for me …

    Most of the email I receive outside of work goes unopened. But not this one: I immediately click through to check out the newest edition of The New Yorker via Zinio, a service Seattle Public Library offers for free with a Library card. I open my iPad’s Zinio app, refresh my “library” — and there it is. Continue reading

  • Treasures of the Library: Old, Big Magazines

    While perusing the magazine shelves at the Central Library one day, I came across some very large, very aged magazines we have in our collection that aren’t in publication anymore. I took a look. I was delighted with what I found inside. Each one is about  11 inches by 17 inches in size (they are… Continue reading

  • 20,000 Magazines at Your Fingertips

    While an increasing number of magazines and newspapers have been succumbing to the economic downturn – either disappearing entirely or moving to online publication only—Google and some publishers are beginning to make the full content of magazine archives available online for free. A few of the magazines with substantial digital content and archives are Baseball Digest… Continue reading

  • A Feast of Words

    Next month, you may have trouble finding Gourmet magazine on the library shelves. This time, though, it’s not just that somebody else is already flipping through page after deliciously glossy page.  After nearly 70 years of publication, Gourmet will release its final issue this November.  It’s collateral damage in publisher Condé Nast’s desperate bid to turn a… Continue reading

  • Easier searching at www.spl.org

    Did you notice a change on our website on Wednesday?  We’ve made it possible to search the library’s catalog and a wide variety of magazines, encyclopedias and other databases all with one search box.  With one search box you can get results from Time, National Geographic, Business Week, Psychology Today,  the Wall Street Journal, The… Continue reading