*I am trying both of these apps on Android
Overdrive Media Console
The setup experience was fairly simple and easy to follow. Now that we don't need to do the Adobe Authorization step it is much smoother. To find content, loading the website to search for the materials felt a bit slow, but that might have just been connectivity issues. When the book is loaded, everything looked great. I didn't need to change the font size, etc. but navigating through the books and finding the settings to change options in the book weren't very hard to locate or use.
I think library customers would find this app useful, but might need guidance from information staff to get it started - especially for seniors who might not be as tech savvy.
Zinio
Zinio, oh Zinio. It's a beautiful app but way better for viewing magazines on a tablet than a phone screen (I have a Samsung Galaxy S4). Getting the magazines onto it was difficult - especially signing up for an account through RBDigital and then also having to sign up with Zinio and get them somehow linked. After going through the process I'm still not absolutely confident I could get it set up again smoothly. Downloading it was not difficult though. I think library customers would like this app once they have it all set up and ready to go with the magazines already loaded on there for them, but setting it up and learning how to use Zinio along with the gateway requires too many steps and can be quite confusing on the way. I think if there was a simpler way to set up and download magazines, I would probably enjoy Zinio more. As it stands, I don't think I would use the app again since my screen was too small and it was so hard to get it to work.
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