Anyone use Hoopla???

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<p><a href=“https://www.hoopladigital.com/home”>https://www.hoopladigital.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>According to the website:
hoopla is an innovative new service that partners with your local public library to bring you thousands of movies, television, music, and audiobook titles for free. There are no costs or hassles. All you need is a library card and a web browser, phone, or tablet.</p>

<p>Just became aware that our library system is a Hoopla provider. Wondering what you think of it if you’ve used it - and how you’ve used it - on a tablet? PC? Mac???</p>

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<p>Sounds interesting! Wow, I have to check if my library system has it. </p>

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<p>I clicked on this thread because I was wondering what Hoopla is. It sounds great! I’ll have to see whether our library system participates.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure how new it is - but there is a nice list of library systems who participate.</p>

<p>Here’s an article about a system in Arizona using Hoopla and a little more detail:
<a href=“Maricopa County Libraries to offer digital streaming”>http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/08/18/maricopa-county-library-district-hoopla-digital-content/14255335/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I use Zinio to “check out” magazines through our library system and it is GREAT. Always leave on a trip with several magazines on my iPad - and they return themselves when they are due - beautiful!<br>
<a href=“http://www.zinio.com/www/index.jsp;jsessionid=41EA9474A804179F0F07A56943AC46A5.prd-main-news4?_requestid=339185”>http://www.zinio.com/www/index.jsp;jsessionid=41EA9474A804179F0F07A56943AC46A5.prd-main-news4?_requestid=339185&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My library has it and I’ve used it a couple of times just to see how it works. It is easy to use, but our library places a four titles per month limit on usage. I won’t be dropping my Netflix.</p>

<p>I use Zinio, too. It is so nice to not use paper magazines and have stacks of them around the house. I do have quite a virtual stack of them on my iPad, though.</p>

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<p>I’m not a heavy media watcher - I think I could work within the 4 titles a month - wonder if that is system wide. </p>

<p>Going to see if I can install it on my iPad later today when I’m home…</p>

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<p>Humph. It’s at the three towns around me, but not at my town’s library. I think I’ll request it.</p>

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<p>WOW checking it out!</p>

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<p>It’s at a couple of libraries in our county system (richest towns), but not mine!</p>

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<p>It’s not in my town but is in the Phoenix library and they let everyone in our county use it. YMMV.</p>

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<p>I, too, had to look this up to see what it was, then went to our township’s library website to see if they had it; they don’t, but they do offer something called Freegal Movies and TV, which looks like essentially the same thing. I wasn’t all that impressed with the titles available when I skimmed through them, though.</p>