eMagazines

eMagazine and eNewspaper migration to Borrowbox

Our eMagazine and most eNews services is now provided by ePress from Bolinda, available through the Borrowbox app.

This means that all of your eAudiobook, eBook, eMagazine and most eNews content will now be available through one single app/ website, making it easier to find the content you’re interested in.

We continue to offer the Newsbank service which includes most UK newspaper titles, and an archive of newspapers.

Access to Libby and PressReader will be turned off on Monday June 30 2025.

For more information see the FAQ page and the instructions How to use ePress

You can sign in with your library account number and PIN, and see the eBooks, eAudiobooks, and ePress for eMagazines and eNewspapers

There will be several carousels of titles by subject and you can also view titles in A-Z format or do a title search

Download eMagazines from Libby

Download eMagazines and eNewspapers from Borrowbox ePress

Read eMagazines

Our eMagazine service is provided by Bolinda through the Borrowbox website and app - see the instructions for borrowing and reading eMagazines. (Libby eMagazines are available until 30 June 2025)

For eMagazines login with your library card/membership number and PIN. Contact 247library@solihull.gov.uk if you need to check or reset your library card number and PIN. All formats of Solihull library cards will work.

You can download and read full digital copies of magazines (including back issues) available from your computer, smartphone or tablet, wherever you are.

Magazines available include popular titles such as:

• Radio Times and other TV listings magazines;
• Good Housekeeping;
• Esquire UK;
• Heat;
• New Scientist;
• Autocar; and
• Hello;

The Borrowbox app is available for Android, Apple and Kindle Fires.

eNewspapers

With our eNewspaper services you can read full colour digital copies of thousands of newspapers  from over 100 countries and over 60 languages on your computer, smartphone or tablet, wherever you are.

Solihull's eNewspaper services are provided by Bolinda through the Borrowbox app and via NewsbankUK. (PressReader is available until 30 June 2025)

Borrowbox ePress includes many UK national newspapers apart from the Daily/Sunday Telegraph, Times/Sunday Times, and the Sun/Sun on Sunday, plus many local papers and worldwide titles. You can read these as if you were reading a physical paper, turning the pages and it's the whole paper including sports results, adverts and pictures - and even crosswords!

NewsbankUK includes UK newspapers and also the Daily/Sunday Telegraph, Times/Sunday Times and Sun/Sun on Sunday, plus many local papers including the Solihull Observer. In addition you can search newspaper archives for articles back to the 1980s for national papers, and also local papers including the Birmingham Mail and Solihull News. 

NewsbankUK includes articles from the Financial Times but only after 30 days has passed from the dates of publication. It is not possible to view the current Financial Times online through our eNewspaper services.