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RBdigital Audiobooks, Magazines & Videos

RBdigital has thousands of downloadable audiobooks and magazines, and offers streaming video from Acorn TV and IndieFlix. There is a small collection of eBook classics too.

New issues of The Economist are currently unavailable. Our subscription should resume soon, and this page will be updated. (Jan 13, 2020)

PressReader

The world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk, where you can browse and read hundreds of full-content premium newspapers and magazines from around the globe.

Access to the Globe & Mail is in-branch only. Come to a branch, download, and read on-the-go.

Please note that access to PressReader requires library customers to provide first and last name and email address to authenticate use. For more information, contact info@virl.bc.ca or review PressReader’s Privacy Policy here.

MasterFILE Premier

Popular full text magazines covering virtually every subject area of general interest, including an Image Collection of over 350,000 photos, maps and flags. Access to Consumer Reports is included as well.

Consumer Reports

New database! Consumer Reports provides trusted ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
Subjects include:

• Appliances
• Cars
• Babies and kids
• Health, fitness and food
• Home and garden
• Money

Canadian Newsstream

Full text access to over 500 BC and Canadian newspapers. Titles include the Vancouver Sun, The Province, Times Colonist, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, and Winnipeg Free Press. Content for some titles starts from the 1970s. Canadian Newsstream is updated daily.

Easy access to back issues of local Vancouver Island newspapers: great for genealogists!

BC Local Community News

Bringing BC’s communities together. News from around the province.