New York Public Library app now allows borrowing e-books from 300,000-strong collection

In light of Coronavirus outbreak, even smallest of good news is being sought after by people. For everyone who is a fan of reading books and is a huge bibliophile, re is indeed some great news. New York Public Library has w launched an app that allows you to borrow any of huge collection of books in library.

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Bookworms assemble!

NYPL digital collection has over 300,000 e-books. To get access to se, one has to first get a library card of library. You can borrow any of se e-books from  New York Public Library for leisure reading at home through your phone.

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app's name is SimplyE. It allows a person to read books on ir phones. re is one important thing to remember while using this app. Books that are popular might have a waitlist, which includes Game of Thrones series, Harry Potter books and so on. NYPL library posted a Tweet regarding same:

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app can be simply downloaded for iPhone as well as Android. Ar thing to remember is that re is a limit of three free books online that you can borrow at one point in time. This is done because re has been a surge in us of app. As per an article in a leading daily, authorities at New York Public Library have claimed that this surge happened after people started staying at home to save mselves from COVID-19 threat. 

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Or than free book online, app also has many or features. One of m is a search in library collection of 800,000 digitized items. se items include historic prints, photographs, maps, and manuscripts. You can also check out Mango Langus and Career Cruising with your library card.

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