Instant access to 5000 newspapers

duridian · 27-10-2018 2:03pm

Good stuff, tonkpills. Thanks for checking out the situation in Wicklow at the library.

Glad to hear that they actually are in the process of transferring to a system where all counties can access the "real" Pressreader services.

When it first became possible to do so from other counties through login via Wicklow Library I hoped this might be where it was headed. It really makes no sense with digital services like this, which can be accessed from the internet, to have it available in some places but not others.

Looking forward to when it is fully working, and again thanks for the info, to tonkpills and everyone else giving feedback on this

go4it · 28-10-2018 8:32am

i've used the dun-laoghaire library card number to login and browse the papers; at some point the irish times was available as well, but it's gone now: was handy when was available, since some articles needs to have a subscription to read them on the times website.
ps:never conected from the library wifi/pc, only from home/work pc

KOR101 · 28-10-2018 10:12am

tonkpills wrote: »

I was talking to a staff member and he metioned that they recently switched to a new system that you can now use the same library card in any of the libraries in ROI.

I'm new to public libraries in the past couple of months. But, yes all libraries are now linked. You can use your card anywhere and leave back books anywhere. Inter-library transfers are no problem. It's a good system.

So, could someone summarise what the state of play is re-newspapers. I did try this recently but no Irish Times as someone else pointed out. Do yu get IT with the hotspot trick?

Trevord · 28-10-2018 10:36pm

KOR101 wrote: »

I'm new to public libraries in the past couple of months. But, yes all libraries are now linked. You can use your card anywhere and leave back books anywhere. Inter-library transfers are no problem. It's a good system.

So, could someone summarise what the state of play is re-newspapers. I did try this recently but no Irish Times as someone else pointed out. Do yu get IT with the hotspot trick?

Irish Times is available through Pressreader, but only outside Ireland as best as I can make out. Certainly is available in UK and continental Europe.

Trevord · 30-10-2018 9:15pm

Thought I was unaffected by the login issue, but my 30 day login has come to an end.

Normally I'd just login again via Wicklow Libraries on the app, but this time I got "Library is not available at the moment"

Same message when I try to login from a browser on PC.

Hope this gets resolved soon!

yoshimitsu · 07-11-2018 2:22pm

Same thing happened to me, stopped working 3 days ago when my 30-day renewal expired. I now get this message when I try to log in from my Mac: PressReader is temporarily unavailable. Hopefully their fixing it and not taking it down forever! This service was amazing value!! Maybe too good to be true and last forever...

sweetie · 07-11-2018 5:01pm

My solution was to use my Dublin City library card number and i'm back in business.

duridian · 07-11-2018 10:17pm

Still a no go with my Kerry Library card.

Glad to hear you had success with the Dublin card, sweetie.
At least that confirms that it is some glitchy thing due to the switchover thing they are doing, and leaves us hope that other area library cards will be sorted in time.
Sure do miss it though.

sweetie · 07-11-2018 10:31pm

duridian wrote:

Glad to hear you had success with the Dublin card, sweetie. At least that confirms that it is some glitchy thing due to the switchover thing they are doing, and leaves us hope that other area library cards will be sorted in time. Sure do miss it though.

Wasn't there a way to make up a Dublin card number earlier in the thread. Worth a try.

Trevord · 29-07-2019 8:20am

This seems to be working again. Used Wicklow library in the drop-down with a card from Galway library.

Rows Grower · 29-07-2019 9:09am

Never had an issue with it, working fine all along.

https://10ws.co/1QbBR6s

branners69 · 29-07-2019 10:27am

branners69 wrote: »

Try a nine digit number starting with 08

This has always worked for me.

taytobreath · 29-07-2019 9:41pm

branners69 wrote: »

This has always worked for me.

I'm the original op, it actually stopped working for me after a few months. But it seems to be back working again. Happy days!

Here's the newspaper publications on offer for Ireland, sorry for the hatchet copy and paste job.
http://library.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

Bray People
British Heritage Travel
Drogheda Independent
Enniscorthy Guardian
Fingal Independent
Gorey Guardian
Hot Press
Image
Ireland of the Welcomes
Irish Daily Mirror
Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner - Weekend
Irish Independent
Irish Sunday Mirror
Mid Louth Independent
New Ross Standard
RTÉ Guide
RTÉ Guide Christmas Edition 2018
Racing Ahead
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
The Argus
The Business Travel Magazine
The Corkman
The Kerryman (North Kerry)
The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
The Kerryman (Tralee Edition)
The Sligo Champion
Wexford People
Wicklow People
Wicklow People (Arklow)
Wicklow People (West Edition)

branners69 · 30-07-2019 12:27am

taytobreath wrote: »

I'm the original op, it actually stopped working for me after a few months. But it seems to be back working again. Happy days!

I have been using it weekly for over 3 years now (from another poster at the time) with no problems. Always using a random 9 digit number starting with 08.

Great magazine selection when you select the UK as the country.

Trevord · 30-07-2019 7:17am

branners69 wrote: »

This has always worked for me.

To be clear I was referring to the pressreader app, not the older pressdisplay webpage.

johnire · 30-07-2019 10:19am

Thanks for posting this-it looks fantastic.
Do I need to register to get access and if I do which subscription should I pick?
Thanks.

owen28 · 30-07-2019 10:46am

johnire wrote: »

Thanks for posting this-it looks fantastic.
Do I need to register to get access and if I do which subscription should I pick?
Thanks.

No need to register. In the library card area type in 800xxxxxx in the library card area.

The number has to be 800 and 6 random digits. E.g 800123456

branners69 · 30-07-2019 1:43pm

Trevord wrote: »

To be clear I was referring to the pressreader app, not the older pressdisplay webpage.

For the app I use my Dublin City library card number, just have to use a cap D and not a small d for it to be accepted.

Have you tried to create a temp library card selecting a Dublin City library, you should be able to login to the app that way. Until your library resolves whatever issue it is having!

ThunderCat · 30-07-2019 1:52pm

Thanks so much OP, never heard of this until today. I downloaded the pressreader app and logged in using my Fingal library card number and sure enough I'm able to access newspapers and magazines no problem. My question is, while logged in using my library card, is this all free? Am I incurring any charges by accessing these titles? Seems too good to be true!

Trevord · 30-07-2019 3:04pm

ThunderCat wrote: »

Thanks so much OP, never heard of this until today. I downloaded the pressreader app and logged in using my Fingal library card number and sure enough I'm able to access newspapers and magazines no problem. My question is, while logged in using my library card, is this all free? Am I incurring any charges by accessing these titles? Seems too good to be true!

Yes it’s free. If you were to create a standard (non library) account then you’d be asked for a credit card and it that case you’d be charged.

Trevord · 30-07-2019 3:07pm

branners69 wrote: »

For the app I use my Dublin City library card number, just have to use a cap D and not a small d for it to be accepted.

Have you tried to create a temp library card selecting a Dublin City library, you should be able to login to the app that way. Until your library resolves whatever issue it is having!

I don’t need to do that because it works with my own library card. Much of the discussion on the thread in recent months was about the app not working for some people with library cards from particular counties.

leck · 26-08-2019 4:55pm

Trying this today for the first time. Went to http://library.pressdisplay.com/ and put in 800 followed by my six-digit Mayo Library Card number, but guessing it can be any number. This worked fine on desktop using Firefox.

But I've installed the Pressreader app on my phone and can't get that to work. When I click sign-in there, one of the options is library. I chose Wicklow, then entered a nine-digit number starting with 800, but is also asked for a pin. What do you put in that field?

Kat1170 · 26-08-2019 5:39pm

Try the last four digits of the number you used.

leck · 26-08-2019 5:50pm

Kat1170 wrote: »

Try the last four digits of the number you used.

Didn't work. Using Wicklow library, then 800123456, pin 3456. I got "invalid patron barcode or password"

bromley52 · 26-08-2019 7:24pm

leck wrote: »

Didn't work. Using Wicklow library, then 800123456, pin 3456. I got "invalid patron barcode or password"

In the barcode just use 08 and any 7 numbers. No need to select liibrary

leck · 26-08-2019 9:35pm

bromley52 wrote: »

In the barcode just use 08 and any 7 numbers. No need to select library

I can't get to the barcode in the app without first selecting a library.

This is what I see on mobile app [three images attached].

On first screen, I choose library icon
Next screen I'm forced to choose a library or I don't see field to input number
Final screen I enter nine digit number 08xxxxxxx
It won't let me past this without entering a pin, I tried the last four digits used for card number. But it doesn't work.

Ten Pin · 26-08-2019 10:53pm

Trying this today for the first time. Went to http://library.pressdisplay.com/ and put in 800 followed by my six-digit Mayo Library Card number, but guessing it can be any number. This worked fine on desktop using Firefox.

Should work the same on mobile browser without having to use the app (layout will be slightly different to desktop)

d31b0y · 27-08-2019 7:40am

I got the app working. I think there are some libraries that don't use the pin number, e.g. Wexford Library.
Just enter the 9 digit code starting with 08 and away you go.

flintash · 27-08-2019 1:32pm

Trevord wrote: »

This seems to be working again. Used Wicklow library in the drop-down with a card from Galway library.

This worked for me.The card from Cork library. Got 30 days. Will see how it goes after that.

bricky06 · 08-09-2019 10:43am

Anyone else having trouble with this in the last few days?

I had previously been using the pressreader app with a Wicklow CoCo library temporary card number I got off their website but I went to open a few papers yesterday and I couldn't open them without paying for the issue.

duridian · 08-09-2019 12:36pm

bricky06 wrote: »

Anyone else having trouble with this in the last few days?

I had previously been using the pressreader app with a Wicklow CoCo library temporary card number I got off their website but I went to open a few papers yesterday and I couldn't open them without paying for the issue.

Seems to be working okay for me at present with my Kerry Library card.

Maybe you haven’t used the card at the bricks ‘n mortar library for a while?
You need to have your card physically scanned in your local library every twelve months or the card won’t work with any of the online services.

I imagine it’s a tactic to stop people in other countries from accessing or something like that.

torrevieja · 08-09-2019 5:36pm

I can’t get this to work at all

New Home · 08-09-2019 9:21pm

duridian wrote: »

Seems to be working okay for me at present with my Kerry Library card.

Maybe you haven’t used the card at the bricks ‘n mortar library for a while?
You need to have your card physically scanned in your local library every twelve months or the card won’t work with any of the online services.

I imagine it’s a tactic to stop people in other countries from accessing or something like that.

It's been working ok for me for the last few days, but tonight I got a blank page until I removed the cookie blocker. I used a dummy card number (9000000) and it opened ok for me. As for other countries, AFAIK it works abroad too (or, other countries have a similar service).

duridian · 09-09-2019 9:13pm

New Home wrote: »

It's been working ok for me for the last few days, but tonight I got a blank page until I removed the cookie blocker. I used a dummy card number (9000000) and it opened ok for me. As for other countries, AFAIK it works abroad too (or, other countries have a similar service).

I use the Pressreader app to access it. I have Adguard Pro, but I think it only affects the Safari browser so maybe that's why I haven't run into cookie problems.

Really what I was really thinking of on the overseas thing was a potential impact on personally owned library cards, where it could, for example, make emigrating and using the service long term impractical, since the card needed to be presented annually at local library.

I guess if using a dummy card number that wouldn't apply.

byte · 09-09-2019 10:43pm

duridian wrote: »

Seems to be working okay for me at present with my Kerry Library card.

Maybe you haven’t used the card at the bricks ‘n mortar library for a while?
You need to have your card physically scanned in your local library every twelve months or the card won’t work with any of the online services.

I imagine it’s a tactic to stop people in other countries from accessing or something like that.

Oh! I was unaware of that. It would explain why my card doesn't seem to work any longer with these services.

Thanks!

JTMan · 03-10-2019 8:09am

bromley52 wrote: »

In the barcode just use 08 and any 7 numbers. No need to select liibrary

I have been using this website for years without issues and now it is not working.

I have tried multiple combinations of numbers including my valid library ID from DCC.

Anyone else having issues? What combo of numbers works for you?

Thanks.

headnorth · 03-10-2019 8:39am

JTMan wrote:

Anyone else having issues? What combo of numbers works for you?

Stopped working for me last week, pity.

bromley52 · 03-10-2019 9:00am

Press reader app still working perfectly.

New Home · 03-10-2019 9:30am

I just got into the website with no problem whatsoever, using a dummy card no. (9000000)

JTMan · 03-10-2019 9:33am

Thanks, 9000000 works. Prior number combos that were mentioned here no longer work.

MunsterM · 03-10-2019 3:01pm

Has anyone used 9000000 on the app (android) ? I've tried it and it doesn't work - I get an error message saying "Invalid patron barcode or password".

I currently use the number on my UK library card but that card will eventually expire as I'm not using it in the UK, so I'd like to get the app working with Irish library service.

Thanks.

New Home · 03-10-2019 3:20pm

When you type 9000000 on the website it's not on the barcode or password boxes, so maybe that's where the problem is. Is there a "log in another way" type of option?

MunsterM · 03-10-2019 3:30pm

New Home wrote: »

When you type 9000000 on the website it's not on the barcode or password boxes, so maybe that's where the problem is. Is there a "log in another way" type of option?

In the app, the sign options I see are : facebook,twitter, google, library or group or email address and password.
If I select library and group I have to select a library from the drop-down. I select Dublin City and enter 9000000 in the library card number box and get the error I mentioned.
I also tried selecting Wexford library, but that also gives an error - not the same error as with Dublin, just "An error has occurred, try again".
I'm a member of Cork County library but that doesn't appear on the list in the drop-down.

hgfj · 03-10-2019 3:58pm

New Home wrote: »

I just got into the website with no problem whatsoever, using a dummy card no. (9000000)

Whew. Nice one. 90000000 works for me too.

How did you figure out 90000000? Did someone tell you or did you just come across it after trying multiple other combinations? I tried various combinations of the 800+ six random digits that used to work but had no luck.

New Home · 03-10-2019 8:15pm

hgfj wrote: »

Whew. Nice one. 90000000 works for me too.

How did you figure out 90000000? Did someone tell you or did you just come across it after trying multiple other combinations? I tried various combinations of the 800+ six random digits that used to work but had no luck.

9 is the first digit of my library card - then I added as many zeros as there are digits on my card n.

New Home · 03-10-2019 8:20pm

MunsterM wrote: »

In the app, the sign options I see are : facebook,twitter, google, library or group or email address and password.
If I select library and group I have to select a library from the drop-down. I select Dublin City and enter 9000000 in the library card number box and get the error I mentioned.
I also tried selecting Wexford library, but that also gives an error - not the same error as with Dublin, just "An error has occurred, try again".
I'm a member of Cork County library but that doesn't appear on the list in the drop-down.

The other thing I can suggest is to create a temporary email address (e.g., see this site, but there are many others), which you can keep active for the time it takes you to register on the Pressreader site, and then you can click on "forget me" and the email address will deactivate, but it should still work as a log on for Pressreader.

Rockin · 06-10-2019 11:26pm

Has anyone gotten this working since they moved to the new press reader platform ?

New Home · 06-10-2019 11:37pm

The app or the website? Or something else?

MunsterM · 07-10-2019 9:52am

Using a different email address worked. Signed up to Wexford County library. Pressreader says the service is not available because I have too many devices on the account, but it then lets me continue to the newspapers.
Thanks.

tipperaryboy · 18-10-2019 1:36pm

Was using for last month using Wexford 8000.. number now expired have tried using 90000000 not working any suggestions

Instant access to 5000 newspapers

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