Next Digital Friday event 28 August

Making the most of your tablet

You can turn your tablet into a portable library, and we can help you to do this. We subscribe to resources which you, as a library member, can use free of charge:

Read today’s Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and 300 other UK newspapers; or if you prefer, thousands of today’s newspapers from around the world in every language imaginable

· Read the latest magazines including Top Gear, Cosmopolitan, Hello, New Scientist and 146 other titles

· Listen to all the classical greats – 1.6 million of them, to be precise – in the Naxos music library

· And, of course, borrow ebooks and talking books from our extensive collection.

Come to our FREE Digital Friday workshop on 28 August 10.00-12.30 where we’ll show you what’s available. Bring your tablet and if there’s time we’ll help you to install the library apps there and then. Note that apps are not available (yet) for Microsoft tablets.

Book a place at https://digitalfridaymorning.eventbrite.co.uk

Find out more about Digital Friday at http://surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday

Checkout a booklist for tablets tinyurl.com/nrlahm9

#digifriday

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