{"id":39,"date":"2020-05-22T00:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/?p=39"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:02:06","slug":"scribd-and-other-online-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaptainslog.co.nz\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/scribd-and-other-online-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribd and other online resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scribd is an ebook service I’ve been subscribing to for quite a while. It’s available in the Apple App Store and it costs NZ$14.50 a month. It has a wide range of audiobooks, documents, books, magazines, snapshots and even sheet music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A snapshot is a condensed overview, and key points of the full book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the service – there’s a lot of interesting documents stored on there, from planners to infographics and many other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audiobook and snapshots are useful for my hour long commute to work. Although I haven’t been using them as much since I’ve been working from home due to Covid-19. The service recently launched a bunch of perks, which are quite cool, so I thought I’d share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peak is an app to keep the brain healthy and working well by providing brain training games. So with Scribd, you get the pro subscription, which is quite good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mubi and Curiosity Stream are also quite good, they are supported by both the Apple TV and Nvidia Shield which I use often, Mubi – is films and Curiosity Stream is documentaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the other one that is of slight interest is ConTV – which I thought I’d check out because it mentioned Star Trek, but I’m not really much of a comic reader, so we’ll see how that one goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not interested in Farfaria – as I don’t have any kids, so… not much use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another good resource is the Auckland libraries. They have heaps of online ebooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The services you can get are detailed here https:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/Pages\/ebooks-and-emagazines.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best ones in my opinion are the RBDigital for online magazines – provided by Zinio – I use that a lot, and the other really good resource is the Linda.com subscription available via the Auckland libraries – I’m not sure if this is common knowledge in NZ but it’s amazing that we have this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You just need your library card number and a pin. Login here https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/portal\/sip?org=aucklandlibraries.govt.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – if you want to get access to a whole bunch of online learning and ebook resources – a combination of Scribed and Auckland Library resources is the way to go. It’s been quite helpful for my Masters’ project, and I’ve read a number of books on Agile and Budgeting (I’m looking to create a budgetting app).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give em a try – especially the Auckland library stuff cos it’s free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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