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5 fab library things you can get from home

Stream movies. Read comics. Sing along with storytime videos. Plus: learn where to find the secret stash of ebooks and audiobooks.

Your Vernon Area Public Library card gives you access to great stuff anytime, anywhere. Here are five top tips of apps to add:

1. Vernon Library app
If you use your phone more than your computer, you want the free Vernon Library app. It's the best way to get to everything you library offers. And — bonus — you can use it to check out. Skip the line. Scan your stuff with your camera.
GET THE APP

2. Kanopy streaming movies
The "free Netflix" of documentaries, classics, and indie films. Make some tea and fire up the collection of Chinese documentaries that Ai Weiwei curated for SFMOMA. Or screen current and past Oscar winners and nominees, including short films and documentaries. Add the Kanopy app to your phone, tablet, or Roku.
BROWSE KANOPY MOVIES NOW

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3. Marvel and DC comics on Hoopla
Spider-Verse, Captain Marvel, and more! Big Nate. Doctor Who. Neil Gaiman. Anthony Bourdain. Teen Titans. Philip K. Dick. Sarah's Scribbles. — Right?! You are welcome.
ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT COMICS

4. The hidden stash of e-books and audiobooks
We teamed up with a bunch of neighboring libraries to share e-books and digital audiobooks. The partnership means you have access to more than 77,000 e-book copies and 21,000 audiobook copies. The catch? You can only see them when you are logged in to cloudLibrary. They don't all show up in the regular catalog.
BROWSE CLOUDLIBRARY

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5. Instant storytime
Miss Sarah, Miss Kelsey, Miss Heather, Miss Emily and your other favorites — on demand! Sing along to the rhymes you know from storytime. Baby Shark is in there, too, because you can never get enough Baby Shark.
VERNONKIDS VIDEO CHANNEL

For many of these services, you'll need to use your library card number to log in the first time or to set up an account. When it asks for a PIN - use the last four digits of the phone number that you gave the library when you got your card.

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