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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,826 ✭✭✭masterboy123


    Thanks. I found the place where it says library number.
    It suggested Kerry Country Library and I selected it, then I tried with both 9 with 7 & 8 zeros. It says invalid number.
    But later on gave me complimentary access for 30 days.

    Thanks for the help.
    New Home wrote: »
    The number 9000000 (9 and 7 zeros) should go in the log in box, where it says library n., not in the search box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Thanks. I found the place where it says library number.
    It suggested Kerry Country Library and I selected it, then I tried with both 9 with 7 & 8 zeros. It says invalid number.
    But later on gave me complimentary access for 30 days.

    Thanks for the help.

    You could just join your local library? https://www.librariesireland.ie/join-your-library


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,826 ✭✭✭masterboy123


    Are there any charges? I can't seem to find the cost of joining library Ireland?
    dulpit wrote: »
    You could just join your local library? https://www.librariesireland.ie/join-your-library


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Are there any charges? I can't seem to find the cost of joining library Ireland?

    No, libraries are free. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,826 ✭✭✭masterboy123


    I have successfully opened an online account. It says I need to go in person to collect my library card. But they have provided a number that I can use and its working very well on PressReader app (android).

    I can open Sunday Independent and Irish Independent without any problem.

    Anyone recommend any other papers? Looking for bargain food deals. :D
    dulpit wrote: »
    No, libraries are free. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    the INM titles disappeared for me last week, but they were back over the weekend - Wicklow CC libraries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    loyatemu wrote: »
    the INM titles disappeared for me last week, but they were back over the weekend - Wicklow CC libraries.

    and they're gone again, Examiner gone as well this time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭MunsterM


    loyatemu wrote: »
    and they're gone again, Examiner gone as well this time.

    Same here - INM titles gone again ,and the Examiner also. Cork County libraries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭ElNino


    INM titles gone even with a VPN this time. Irish Times is still available with a VPN.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Weird, I can see the indo, times (which is new for me) and examiner. This is on android app, Cork City libraries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Weird, I can see the Independent, Times (which is new for me) and Examiner. This is on android app, no VPN or anything and with Cork City Libraries...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭ruddy1987


    dulpit wrote: »
    Weird, I can see the Independent, Times (which is new for me) and Examiner. This is on android app, no VPN or anything and with Cork City Libraries...


    Anyone else still see the info or is it gone gone now ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭JTMan


    ruddy1987 wrote: »
    Anyone else still see the info or is it gone gone now ?

    I still have access to the Irish Independent and Irish Times using a VPN (Hola) on the desktop version of the website.


  • Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭emclau


    ruddy1987 wrote: »
    Anyone else still see the info or is it gone gone now ?

    It was there last night, but now is gone this morning.. strange..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭NewClareman


    The Indo and Cork Examiner are gone this morning - Kerry County Library. They have been gone for some time on Limerick County Library.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Lost The Kerryman last Wednesday week and haven't seen it again.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    I wonder if it is down to the efficiency of different libraries In updating their catalogues? It would explain the rolling disappearance of certain titles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Update for Cork City - can still see Indo and Irish Times but when I click in I get a message which says I can't download due to request from publisher.


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Dublinmuppet


    I’m Fingal library and Indo gone this morning I haven’t had Irish Times in ages.


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  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    Very annoying this, lost indo and examiner. Can still get the times though vpn but don’t normally read it and prefer the indo and examiner. Fingers crossed it comes back again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    Why is this allowed, but not (for example) linking to a torrent site for '0000s of free eBooks'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    kenmm wrote: »
    Why is this allowed, but not (for example) linking to a torrent site for '0000s of free eBooks'?

    This is a legitimate feature of libraries.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    Ah ok - I thought it was how to exploit the system by typing in a fake barcode - I was curious!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    You just need to input a library card number, 9000000 has the same number of digits.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭peejy


    Wexford library .. no indo etc since midweek

    Using android app. Tried vpn and no luck


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Trevord


    On Wicklow and Cork City Libraries just 26 publications available on android app.

    No Independent or related papers and no Examiner.

    Must be that they are no longer licensed.

    I had been expecting the Examiner to disappear when the Irish Times bought it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Just three Irish newspapers available for me this morning. The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the Sligo Weekender.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Cetyl Palmitate


    Sunday indo not available via the app but if I log in through a browser I can read it. Strange. I'm not using s VPN so this could be a technical issue rather than license.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Sunday indo not available via the app but if I log in through a browser I can read it. Strange. I'm not using s VPN so this could be a technical issue rather than license.

    Good point about it possibly being technical, all of the free local community newspapers are gone as well, which is unusual.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭MunsterM


    Sunday indo not available via the app but if I log in through a browser I can read it. Strange. I'm not using s VPN so this could be a technical issue rather than license.

    Very strange. If I use a browser I only see the same 26 publications as I see on the app - no Examiner or Indo.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭rf1980


    Seems Examiner and Independent have been restricted to use based on library wifi only now. https://twitter.com/PressReaderCare/status/1271823930337013760


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭MunsterM


    rf1980 wrote: »
    Seems Examiner and Independent have been restricted to use based on library wifi only now. https://twitter.com/PressReaderCare/status/1271823930337013760

    Not much use when the libraries are not allowing us in .


  • Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭headnorth


    rf1980 wrote: »
    Seems Examiner and Independent have been restricted to use based on library wifi only now. https://twitter.com/PressReaderCare/status/1271823930337013760

    Thats a kicker. It was easy & quickly just to tap the app and read the papers. I see some of the restricted papers have appeared on other sites online so they should be easy to access with a resolver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    New Home wrote: »
    You just need to input a library card number, 9000000 has the same number of digits.

    So it is an exploit then? Or where do you get the library card number?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,638 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    kenmm wrote: »
    So it is an exploit then? Or where do you get the library card number?

    The hints in the name, library card ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    The hints in the name, library card ;)

    ha - alright - so its just the local public library card then? - as everything seems to suggest that people don't need one. Therefore no surprise the newspapers are taking their content down..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    kenmm wrote: »
    ha - alright - so its just the local public library card then? - as everything seems to suggest that people don't need one. Therefore no surprise the newspapers are taking their content down..

    There’s nothing illegal or questionable going on. Everybody in Ireland can get a library card and use the service. If you’re interested, have a look at:

    https://www.librariesireland.ie/news/online-services-during-coronavirus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    Library is not open on a Sunday so does that mean then that Sunday independent is finished for library members use?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    I wonder if INM have pulled the plug ?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    To answer my own question :

    From press reader twitter account :
    Hi! Due to a recent restriction, The Irish Independent can only be accessed onsite while connected to the library's wi-fi network. If you have further questions, please DM us. -ES
    https://t.co/GPfzIDR4Df


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  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭peejy


    headnorth wrote: »
    Thats a kicker. It was easy & quickly just to tap the app and read the papers. I see some of the restricted papers have appeared on other sites online so they should be easy to access with a resolver.

    Can you say where?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Is the OP method still working?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Library is not open on a Sunday so does that mean then that Sunday independent is finished for library members use?


    You can access it on Sundays if it has an Open Library facility set up, lots of branches do. You can also change the date on the site to read old issues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭JTMan


    New Home wrote: »
    You can access it on Sundays if it has an Open Library facility set up, lots of branches do. You can also change the date on the site to read old issues.

    Or use a VPN (it is not hard) and carry on reading the Sunday Independent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭ROVER


    JTMan wrote: »
    Or use a VPN (it is not hard) and carry on reading the Sunday Independent.

    VPN does not work for me. Can anyone get it to work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    ROVER wrote: »
    VPN does not work for me. Can anyone get it to work?

    I can get the irish times with vpn but not the sunday independent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭MunsterM


    sweetie wrote: »
    I can get the irish times with vpn but not the sunday independent

    Same - Irish Times with VPN, no Independent. No Examiner either.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I wonder, would different library branches give you access to a different selection of papers...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    MunsterM wrote: »
    Same - Irish Times with VPN, no Independent. No Examiner either.

    same here - Wicklow CC

    If I log out of my library account on the VPN I can see the Indo and the Examiner (though obviously I can't read them without subscribing) so I guess if you're using a library account, you have to be on the library network to get those papers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    I wonder is it a result of the system being so easy to game. Most of us here have valid library accounts now but it seems that it's quite easy to
    use the system without. I don't really bother with the newspapers and all my magazines are still available but my Dad was able to use it and found it a good resource.


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