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FREE Access to 7,000+ Australian / International Newspapers & Magazines @ Library PressDisplay

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FREE Access to 7,000+ Australian / International Newspapers & Magazines @ Library PressDisplay
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nocure on 10/05/2019 - 15:53 library.pressdisplay.com (15249 clicks)
Last edited 30/09/2019 - 16:16 by 1 other user

Posting as a reminder to all that this is still available, all credit goes to previous posters.

Over 7,000 titles are available at time of posting. Australian newspapers are limited in number due to News Corp disallowing access to their publications.
You can log in using a library card barcode, although almost any random 8 digit number will suffice, e.g.
40269584
45673987
47160457
41111111

Australian PressDisplay Titles:

  • 4 x 4 Australia
  • Australian Geographic
  • Australian Guitar
  • Australian House & Garden
  • Australian Traveller
  • BBC Good Food
  • Belle
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Classic Ford
  • Classics Monthly
  • Computer Music
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Cosmos
  • Country Style
  • Cross Stitcher
  • Diabetic Living
  • ELLE
  • Empire
  • F1 Racing
  • Games Master
  • Gardening Australia
  • Girlfriend
  • Golf Australia
  • Good Health
  • Gourmet Traveller
  • GQ
  • Guitar Techniques
  • Guitarist
  • Harper’s Bazaar
  • Home Beautiful
  • Inside Out
  • Inside Sport
  • Inside: donna hay
  • International Traveller
  • Linux Format
  • Little Angel
  • Lonely Planet
  • Love Patchwork & Quilting
  • Mac Format
  • Mania
  • Maximum PC
  • Men’s Health
  • Money Magazine Australia
  • New Idea
  • NW
  • OK!
  • Organic Gardener
  • PC & Tech Authority
  • PCPOWERPLAY
  • PlayStation Official Magazine
  • Popular Science
  • Prevention
  • Procycling
  • Reader’s Digest
  • Real Living
  • Science Illustrated
  • SFX
  • Signature Travel & Lifestyle
  • Simply Crochet
  • Simply Knitting
  • Soap World
  • Super Food Ideas
  • taste.com.au
  • The Australian Women’s Weekly
  • The Australian Women’s Weekly Food Magazine
  • The Knitter
  • Top Gear
  • Total Film
  • Total Guitar
  • TV Soap
  • Unique Cars
  • VOGUE Australia
  • VOGUE Living Australia
  • Wheels
  • WHO
  • Woman’s Day
  • Women’s Health

Previous deals here, here and here thanks to tonester, NancyCat & headphonejack.

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  • docians on 10/05/2019 - 16:03
    +4

    sigh
    I remember the good old days when you could read Aussie papers here

    • bex on 10/05/2019 - 17:09
      +10

      Using it “outside of australia” gets you additional titles including Aussie papers ;)

  • kool on 10/05/2019 - 16:04
    +1

    Sweet deal, thanks nocure

  • theguyrules on 10/05/2019 - 16:05
    +2

    Awesome! Any easy way to browse these on iPad? the missus would love to have all those food magazines. Actually I would love not to have hundreds of physical magazines hoarded.

    • Sega on 10/05/2019 - 16:09
      +2

      PressReader app does the trick. Join your local libray and get free access. A few other apps get the same magazines and others. Check out your libraries web page for details of what else can be had .

  • tsunamisurfer on 10/05/2019 - 16:09
    +5

    This is awesome thanks a lot. My subscription to Love Patchwork & Quilting was coming up for renewal, so this will save me a bit of money.

  • Kontiki on 10/05/2019 - 16:23
    +9

    Also worth a look: https://www.rbdigital.com/

    Lots of Aussie libraries offering magazines and comic books.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/05/2019 - 16:49
    +2

    this is rather awesome thanks mate

  • morgs640 on 10/05/2019 - 17:15

    Will this work with a Kindle?

    • WilkyBoy on 10/05/2019 - 17:26
      +2

      or a kobo?

      • thatsthat on 11/05/2019 - 09:52

        No neither one

  • joshka on 10/05/2019 - 17:46
    +1

    Thank you so much OP. This is awesome :-)

  • JD9151 on 10/05/2019 - 17:55
    +4

    Great deal but seriously that UI is terrible. Makes reading very difficult.

  • pitpicker on 10/05/2019 - 18:08
    +2

    Wish they have the Financial Review or any good finance/economics papers

    • rickb on 10/05/2019 - 18:52
      +4

      Easy. Disable Javacript on their website and read away.

      • docians on 10/05/2019 - 20:56
        +2

        Easy. Disable Javacript on their website and read away.

        had to use google to find out how
        disabled Javascript
        now get a blank screen

        Not advanced computer literate, so assuming that you were joking?

        • rickb on 10/05/2019 - 21:18
          +3

          Not joking. Disable Javascipt in the browser settings and you can read any article on the AFR website. Works for me using Safari, Chome, or Firefox.

          • docians on 10/05/2019 - 21:39

            @rickb: Oh ok
            I thought you were talking about pressdisplay website :)

            • rickb on 10/05/2019 - 21:52

              @docians: Ah sorry. I should have been more specific.

        • ak47wong on 11/05/2019 - 03:53
          +1

          You can also just hit Esc on your keyboard the instant the page has loaded.

          • Xiaomate on 11/05/2019 - 20:45

            @ak47wong: Any way of doing that on android

            • ak47wong on 11/05/2019 - 21:45

              @Xiaomate: Tap the stop icon. AFR just displays an overlay on the content to stop you from reading it if you're not a subscriber, but it's loaded after the content. So you just need to stop the page loading after the content is loaded but before the overlay is.

  • knackers on 10/05/2019 - 18:11
    +2

    Australian newspapers are limited in number due to News Corp <— that's a good thing

    • Diji1 on 10/05/2019 - 19:12
      +3

      Avoiding all mainstream news media is a good thing.

      People far smarter than us (well, OK, me) have been pointing this out for decades eg Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky.

      • knackers on 10/05/2019 - 19:34
        +2

        oh i agree.. I posted a video recently where Chomsky brilliantly describes how the corporate elites sway elections using fear, tribalism and demagoguery. The Murdoch media empire is the main propaganda vehicle and then you have various Koch funded think-tanks and super-pacs who throw money at independent right winged pundits.

  • Misha Bakunin on 10/05/2019 - 18:53
    +1

    nice, but how to view the magazine pages in full screen?? the interface is not great.

  • gstfree on 10/05/2019 - 19:08
    -8

    Any library has digital herald sun?

    • charedblack on 10/05/2019 - 19:27
      +16

      That comment alone deserves a permanent lifetime ban from this site……

    • Draupnir on 11/05/2019 - 03:47
      +4

      Quilton toilet paper is usually on sale on Amazon mate. Much better quality - even when it comes to reading as well.

  • DollyWally on 10/05/2019 - 21:14
    +1

    Thanks! Works great - note to other "newbies" and technically challenged - add the 8 numbers (or library card #) in Barcode.

  • Super_Dre on 10/05/2019 - 21:47

    Can this only be accessed by PC browsers? I'm on my phone and all that seems to be available are newspaper publications.
    I'm interested in accessing full magazines eg. National geographic, cosmos.

    • Super_Dre on 10/05/2019 - 22:57

      answered my own question, Yes.

      • rygle on 11/05/2019 - 22:08

        At worst you could select to view the desktop version. Firefox does that, but not sure about others…

  • CC123 on 10/05/2019 - 22:35

    Pretty good.
    The website seems confusing for a first time user

  • mrjayviper on 10/05/2019 - 23:26

    How do I get access? Do I need to sign up first? Thanks

    • JeffreyM on 10/05/2019 - 23:29
      +1

      If your library provides access to PressReader, all you have to do is use your online library account to login

    • DollyWally on 11/05/2019 - 10:07

      Just put your library card # (or any 8 digits in the Barcode field)

  • Mish27 on 11/05/2019 - 00:47
    +1

    Amazing!! Thank you!

  • RefusdClassification on 11/05/2019 - 02:15
    +3

    As mentioned above, disabling javascript works on some paywalled sites. I have a simple Firefox plugin called YesScript that lets me Blacklist javascript on a site with a simple button click. Enabling Private Browsing works for some sites (File> New private Window in FireFox). Setting the User Agent to GoogleBot works for some sites (User Agent Switcher extension in FireFox does this).

    The best all in one solution is the FireFox anti-paywall extension here: https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/releases

  • jingsu6688 on 11/05/2019 - 12:41

    Call me an idiot, but I really cannot figure it out to use the website with PressReader. Do I download the PressReader as an app on my phone, then login with my library details? My library is Ringwood Vic.

  • Tuttle on 11/05/2019 - 13:16
    +3

    So I think I worked this out.

    Download pressreader on iPad (or whatever).

    Then go to login, and select “library” below when you put your details in.

    When it asks for your library, type in Warwickshire, and pick that one (was the second of two options for me).

    Then put in any of the afformentioned barcodes, and voila!

    • lonepine on 14/05/2019 - 00:02

      Good job dude

  • vergs on 11/05/2019 - 14:37

    I am having an issue with the magazines. Example, I choose APC then get the front cover I try the next page arrow or even on of the page thumbnails and it just brings me back to the PressReader homepage. I am using Firefox 66.0.5 64bit and have enabled Flash for the site and have diabled ABP. Anyone else having this issue?

  • jebdra on 11/05/2019 - 14:51

    Thanks so much OP. I didn't know this existed.

    My local library isn't listed, and all Australian libraries I tried wanted a barcode and pin and mine didn't work, so I copied ptrg above and used Warwickshire. Your 4 listed barcodes are all "in use", but a little playing found one that wasn't.

    My worry is - what about the poor subscriber whose number I have used. If they subsequently try to use their perfectly legal library number, what happens ??? doesn anybody know ???

    • Tuttle on 11/05/2019 - 14:54

      Poor old tiger is in strife (first code listed)

  • Melb69 on 11/05/2019 - 15:32

    Where can you get The Herald Sun Vic?

    • Tuttle on 11/05/2019 - 16:25
      +3

      Werribee treatment plant.

  • menace208 on 11/05/2019 - 17:21

    Anyone else having problems viewing this website in Chrome? Comes up as a blank page for me. Works perfectly in IE. Not sure why?

  • gazza the great on 14/05/2019 - 19:22
    +1

    Thanks for a great link nocure. @menace208- I'm on chrome, no problems here. I'm using the 41111111 barcode only, no email address or password, going straight thru'.

  • daydream on 17/05/2019 - 01:50
    +3

    Please consider using your own personal library card number when using this. It's free to get one via your local library (most) and only takes a few mins - for many you can do it online. In this way libraries (and in turn this service) continue to get funding to run as they see the user numbers. Otherwise councils look at the reduced number of users (don't realise people are using fake/published numbers for services like this) and cut the budget to them and we all suffer in due course.

  • dryandra on 18/05/2019 - 07:27

    Is it just me or are Australian main newspapers now not available through Pressreader using a VPN ?

  • xecutor on 28/05/2019 - 10:42
    +2

    For those who want a more 'personal login' you can apply for a library card from the National Library of Australia.
    This is FREE (see full terms & conditions when applying).

    1) https://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/
    2) After you fill in your personal details, you will get your card in the mail and can then access PressReader from the nla.gov.au site
    3) https://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/item/4307

    This is the most legitimate way of accessing PressReader and ensures libraries like the NLA can continue to provide this free service.

  • zyklotrop on 10/06/2019 - 15:32

    Just checked Libraries SA for the best way to (legitimately) log in and found the following:

    https://www.pirie.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Shared%2…

    In a nutshell: "Cancellation of Shared Subscriptions PressDisplay and WorldBook Online"

    • Doyen on 23/01/2020 - 19:28

      this link is now dead unfortunately

  • sssbp on 24/09/2019 - 19:15

    No longer working without logging in, unfortunately

    Invalid barcode/library card number

  • zappa on 28/09/2019 - 00:25

    Same as above "Invalid barcode/library card number" - workarounds welcomed

  • buderim11 on 17/03/2020 - 07:15

    Press reader now only shows the front page when using library card number, is there any way to view the whole paper without paying $$$ ..

  • casho on 27/03/2020 - 10:29

    Anyone got any way to get in now?

    • LSGH on 01/04/2020 - 20:19
      +1

      I used to be able to log in a couple of months ago, all of sudden it says my library card number is invalid

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