Watch TV and Movies
Get the best TV and movies for all ages on your computer, tablet, or smart phone. You can even get the Kanopy app for Roku and Apple TV.
Features no-wait streaming TV shows and movies.
For the 2022-23 Year:
- Loans – 3 days (TV and movies); 30 days (Kanopy Kids); 30 days (Great Courses)
- 10 item checkout limit per month
- No wait list; no overdues, no renewals
Go to Hoopla
Hoopla is TV, movies, and so much more – stream immediately to your computer, tablet, or smart phone. You can even get the Hoopla app for Roku and Apple TV.
Features no-wait streaming TV shows, movies, ebooks, audiobooks, and comics.
- Instructional video! Get started!
- Already have Hoopla, but new to GPL? Change your library account!
- Loans – 3 days (video); 7 days (music); 21 days (ebooks and audiobooks)
- No wait list; no overdues, no renewals
- 12 item checkout limit per month
Libby is the newest and best way to get downloadable eBooks and audiobooks with a collection curated for you. You can get the Libby app by downloading it onto your Apple, Android, or Kindle tablet.
If you prefer to use websites, you can still visit uhls.overdrive.com to access the same collection!
- Choose 7, 14, or 21 day checkout
- No overdues
- 10 item checkout limit at a time
- 14 item hold limit per month
Reading on an Apple, Android, or Kindle Tablet:
Download the Libby App for iOS ,Android, or Kindle today.
Kindle Paperwhite, or other models:
- Use a computer or any internet-connected device to visit libbyapp.com or uhls.overdrive.com to transfer your books wirelessly to your Kindle via your Amazon account OR
- Download the Libby app onto an Apple or Android device and use the same steps to wirelessly transfer your books to your Kindle via your Amazon account
Go to Hoopla
Hoopla is TV, movies, and so much more – stream immediately to your computer, tablet, or smart phone. You can even get the Hoopla app for Roku and Apple TV.
Features no-wait streaming TV shows, movies, ebooks, audiobooks, and comics.
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- Instructional video! Get started!
- Already have Hoopla, but new to GPL? Change your library account!
- Loans – 3 days (video); 7 days (music); 21 days (ebooks and audiobooks)
- No wait list; no overdues, no renewals
- 12 item checkout limit per month
Perfect for kids and caregivers! Stream picture book stories paired with non-fiction readers on numerous topics.
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You can use Libby to borrow over 3,200 eMagazine the same way that you borrow your favorite eBooks. Click here to be taken to Libby and access the collection now!
Please note that the classic Overdrive app will be discontinued as of February, 2022: Switch to Libby today!
Libby Magazine Title List
Over 3,200 titles (in multiple languages!) have been added to Overdrive magazines, including:
- Architectural Digest
- Cosmopolitan
- Food Network Magazine
- House Beautiful
- The New Yorker
- Reader’s Digest
- Rolling Stone
- WIRED
…and so many more.
Interested in browsing Consumer Reports? We have an online subscription: Visit our Learning Tools page to find Consumer Reports under “Consumer Information”, or find it under our website menu “Research & Learn”.

Download Magazines with Flipster
Flipster, our popular magazine service, is still here! You won’t find these titles anywhere else.
Click here to be taken to Flipster!
See the menu below for a list of titles.
Flipster Magazine Title List
Guilderland cardholders have access to more magazines than ever! GPL provides access to the following magazines in Flipster:
- The Atlantic
- Baking Heaven
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Birds & Blooms
- Consumer Reports on Health
- Cottages & Bungalows
- Cricket
- Do It Yourself
- Eating Well
- Fine Cooking
- Fine Gardening
- Fun for Kidz
- Harvard Health Letter
- Interweave Knits
- Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
- Kiplinger’s Retirement Report
- McCall’s Quilting
- People
- Pioneer Woman Magazine
- Rachael Ray in Season
- Ranger Rick
- Sports Illustrated for Kids
- Time
- Zoobooks
…plus 3,200 additional titles in Overdrive!
Interested in browsing Consumer Reports? We have an online subscription: Visit our Learning Tools page to find Consumer Reports under “Consumer Information”, or find it under our website menu “Research & Learn”.
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