Challenge Number Two: check out a thing
What looks fun to you on Hoopla? Have you found an ebook, comic, or audiobook you want to read? Do you want to listen to the Hamilton soundtrack for the 1,000,000,000,000,000th time? Are you tired of making excuses for not having seen "A Goofy Movie" yet? Go ahead-- you'll have aced this challenge when you get the thing you want.
One tip: before you take your device away from wifi, hit "play" or "read" on the items you've downloaded. You'll see a message that says "preparing for offline use." This only takes a second but must be done before the content is viewable.
One tip: before you take your device away from wifi, hit "play" or "read" on the items you've downloaded. You'll see a message that says "preparing for offline use." This only takes a second but must be done before the content is viewable.
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Did you download or stream? What device did you use?
I have downloaded and read a few comics on my ipad. It works well. I tried to find the hoopla app for my amazon fire TV stick so I could watch a movie, but I was sad when I couldn't find it.
ReplyDelete[this is Margaret] I streamed a Bjork album, then I checked out the Bollywood classic Amar Akbar Anthony and got it to play on my TV through Chromecast via ipad. I have wifi at home so I'm not sure whether I downloaded or streamed the movie... I had friends over and it was fun to show off Hoopla -- I think they will use it -- but the 6 item per month limit kind of put a stop to my bragging on OPL. Can we get a higher limit if there's a lot of usage?
ReplyDeleteI hope we can, eventually! Hoopla is pay-per-use, so we have to start with a fairly small number to make sure we don't exceed our budget. We can adjust as we start to see how usage plays out. (Meanwhile...... your Berkeley card will get you a login as well, just sayin'.)
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ReplyDeleteI have downloaded an album to my phone and also streamed one (maybe the Hamilton soundtrack) from a computer. I also downloaded the graphic novel to my phone to see what the readability was like. I kinda wish it would automatically zoom into each panel, but other than that, not too shabby.
ReplyDeleteBrian, try double-tapping one panel!
DeleteChecked out and streamed the soundtrack to Hamilton on my Android phone. Made ~2 hours of weeding the stacks much more fun.
ReplyDeleteI read a graphic novel (or part of it so far) on my PC. The interface was really amazing. It shows the entire page and you can read through that way, or you can click on an individual panel and it will enlarge it and let you read panel by panel! --josephine
ReplyDeleteI downloaded an audiobook on my iPhone (the unwanteds). It took about two minutes. The selection was a little meh for kids books but I am excited about this one! -Mary Dubbs
ReplyDeleteNina challenge the children's librarians to a "Clean Your Pantry Potluck so I check out the book Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day .While studying food policy as a master’s candidate at NYU, Leanne Brown asked a simple yet critical question: How well can a person eat on the $4 a day given by SNAP, the U.S. government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program informally known as food stamps? I think I am making the apple cake.I have downloaded hoopla on my kindle fire tablet and it will not recognize my password. Every time I log in to hoopla I have to change my password so strange seems fine on work computer.
ReplyDeleteI've downloaded a book on cd to my kindle fire, which was easy enough to do and to listen too.
ReplyDeleteBorrowed "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night". I loved it the first eighty million times I watched it, I will love it more over the next three days!
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I borrowed & started to play the New Zealand film "Boy." It was incredibly easy!
ReplyDeleteI downloaded the comic "Saga" on the app on my phone! Easy peasy!
ReplyDeleteGot some comics and some music. I don't usually like streamy media, so I they are downloaded to my iPad.
ReplyDeleteGot some comics and some music. I don't usually like streamy media, so I they are downloaded to my iPad.
ReplyDeleteUsed my iPad to stream "The Teenage Brain"--a PBS documentary. Was very easy!
ReplyDeleteI borrowed the Very Best of Prince (music) and streamed it via my desktop computer. Then just for fun pulled it up on my Android app to see how it worked there...I like that it continued right where I left off on the computer.
ReplyDeleteI got the video "the librarian"... love that kind of stuff
ReplyDeleteI borrowed and downloaded an audio book, "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman. Easy!
ReplyDeleteI borrowed and downloaed Phoebe and her Unicorn on the library ipad! However I don't know if I can get any of it back, since I initially was somehow signed in using an SFPL account, maybe leftover on the ipad, when I switched to OPL, I had run out of space for content and it erased everything for the rest of the month :(
ReplyDeleteOh! Maybe I can experiment with adding a second library account, as if my family shared an ipad. Will report back soon!
I streamed Songs and Story: Sleeping Beauty for Gail. I love these Disney stories as a sub for when she's over stimulated and wanting to veg out, but she already watched a lot of TV that week. The Disney ones usually have audio from the movies, so that's nice. I've downloaded the Hamilton soundtrack. Both streaming and downloading is super intuitive on Hoopla.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded a album and listened to it over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded show on mindfulness.. after the hiccup of wanting to use a different device to watch it- and not remembering my password at first... it was very easy! When I leave it and reopen the software- it takes me right back to where I left off!
ReplyDeleteI downloaded 6 items, one of each kind. I actually streamed my music selection. Then I returned my movie before I watched it and had a sad moment when I discovered that returning doesn't mean getting a new item. Until next month. Oh well, I still love it.
ReplyDeleteI'm super behind on this. I checked out 2 items: a graphic novel titled Wonder Woman: Earth One v.1 and a film, "Battle Royale". I opened the graphic novel on my phone and fiddled around with zooming in and out on each panel by tapping the panel I wanted to look at. I haven't checked out the movie yet but plan on streaming it on my t.v through my laptop (chromecast).
ReplyDeleteI checked out a Spanish for kids movie because while in Mexico last week I realized I'm doing a horrible job teaching my son Spanish! Hahaha-Xochitl
ReplyDeleteLast week I streamed A Girl on a Train, having listened to the audiobook a while ago. I enjoyed being able to start watching instantly. - Emily O
ReplyDeleteFrom Amy S: I downloaded some music and listened to it on my iPhone. I am saving my movie downloads for them I get home. I am going to try adding Hoopla via Roku tonight! (Does that work? If not, I will connect from my laptop and then use an HDMI cable to stream Hoopla content to a bigger screen).
ReplyDeleteI downloaded an episode of the Carol Burnett show from 1969 on my I-pad.
ReplyDeleteBrenda Membreno: I streamed "Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" from the computer. Nice and quick.
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