The Toronto library lets you watch, listen and read a huge selection of movies, music, ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers on your smartphone, tablet or PC/Mac — all at no charge!
All you have to do is register on-line using your library card. (If you don’t already have a PIN, try the last 4 digits of your phone number.)
No library card? No problem. Just download “Libby, by Overdrive” from your App Store and get instant online access with you local mobile phone number (must be 416, 647, 437). NOTE: some of the services below are only accessible with library card logon.
Services you can access:
Kanopy (movies & eBooks)
Hoopla (movies)
RBdigital (audiobooks & eMagazines)
BiblioBoard (eBooks from self-published authors)
Flipster eMagazines (current issues of popular magazines)
Safari Tech & Business Books (major technology & business publishers)
PressReader (newspaper & magazine for 100 countries in 60 languages)
NYTimes.com (New York Times newspaper)
CanTook Station (French-language eBooks)
Midici.tv (streaming video of classical music, operas & ballets)
Naxos Music Library (great music spanning medieval to modern)
Naxos Music Library (Jazz)
If you don’t have a library card, or you’ve ‘been there and done that’ you can try these other FREE services to keep you and your family amused:
CRACKLE (TV & movies)
hoopla (movies)
PLEX (movies)
Pluto TV (livestream ViaComCBS)
Vudu (movies & TV shows)
Tubi TV (movies)
TVO (documentaries, etc.)
CBC GEM (livestream TV, movies, docs)
Internet Archives (movies, audio, eBooks, audiobooks)
Project Gutenberg (eBooks)
Authorama (eBooks)
LibriVox (audiobooks)
ManyBooks (eBooks)
BookBub (eBooks)
Goodreads (eBooks)