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Flipster Support: Mobile App

The Flipster App

How to get the Flipster App

You can download and install the App from these links:

Technical specifications

For more information about the Flipster App, read the articles below.

Authenticate the Flipster Mobile App

1. After opening the Flipster App, use the Find My Library feature to connect to the TAFE NSW collection. 

2. Search for and select TAFE NEW SOUTH WALES STRATHFIELD and tap the LOG IN button.
 

Find My Library | Sort | Search box: TAFE NEW SOUTH WALES | TAFE NEW SOUTH WALES - STRATHFIELD NEW SOUTH WALES | Log in button

 

3. At the TAFE NSW login screen, log in with your TAFE NSW username and password.

Searching and Downloading Using the App

To search a magazine online, tap the Magnifying Glass icon in the upper-right corner of the Explore screen. In the search field enter your keywords. As you type, titles related to your keywords are displayed.

To download a magazine to your device, tap on the Download iconor tap the cover for more information and previous issues.

When the magazine is downloaded, the icon will change from the download arrow to a red book icon.   

At the Explore screen tap on the pull-down menu icon to browse Recently Published magazines in alphabetical order or magazines in various categories. 

Alternatively, tap on Categories for a list of subject areas.

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Viewing Downloaded Magazines

To view your downloaded magazines tap on the My Shelf icon at the bottom of the screen. 

Explore | My Shelf | Read

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Tap on Sort to view your magazines alphabetically or by the most recently downloaded.  New magazines will have a New label  in the lower left corner of the magazine cover.  Select your magazine and tap on the cover to start reading.

 

Once you begin reading your magazine a percentage label appears below the magazine cover which tracks how much of the magazine you have read.

Note: Some downloads will expire after a week and will display an Expired label. You can delete any downloaded magazines from your device by tapping on the Trash iconbelow each cover.

Reading on the App

At the Read screen, you can navigate your magazine by swiping your finger left or right to flip through the pages.  Alternatively you can tap on the menu icon  to view the digital table of contents with links to each article highlighted yellow.


To add a bookmark tap on the bookmark icon  located on the top left-hand corner of the Read screen. To view your bookmarks tap go to the My Shelf menu and tap Bookmarks.
Your list of bookmarks will appear.  To delete a bookmark  tap the bookmark icon  again.

Note: When you delete a magazine from your device, the bookmarks are also deleted.

Additional Features at Article Level

Text view

This option is available when reading an article. Tap on Text View to read your articles free from images and advertisements. You can change it back to Page View if you wish to see the images.

Bookmark icon | Ceramics Monthly, Nov 2021 | Text View (Circled) | Menu icon

When multiple articles appear on a page, a drop-down menu appears when you tap on Text View to select the text only version of a specific article.

 

Text to speech

The Flipster app includes a Text to speech reader that can read your magazine articles to you. 

At Text View, tap the speaker icon   to use the Text to speech reader. 

Press the play button in the Text to speech window to hear the article read to you.

Please note that these features are only available within the app.