How To Get a Free Subscription to the Financial Times

Or any other paper or magazine you like.

This works in the UK, but it might work elsewhere, the app it depends on seems to be in use in many countries, but your milage may vary. This will be a very short article, I’m really just trying to tell you about this really cool app.

If you read periodicals or newspapers you need to know about this. It’s changed my media diet in a big way.

Normally the FT, for example would cost you £708 a year for a full digital subscription or £375 a year for a print subscription (with promotions for a new subscriber) but with the Libby app (and I’m not being paid to promote it) you pay nothing.

Here’s how to get it:

1. You’ll need a free app called Libby - Iphone / Ipad or Android it’s also available on Kindle, but I don’t know how to link to that (that’s how I use it though)

2. You’ll also need to go to your local library and open an account if you don’t already have one.

3. You put your library card number into libby and it gives you access to all the periodicals you could get at the library digitally, without you having to visit or borrow the periodicals. You can also use it to borrow e-books, audiobooks etc. too.

My wife found out about this at the library and it’s amazing. I now have about £3k’s worth of magazine and newspaper subscriptions coming to my kindle automatically including the FT, which normally would be too expensive for me to justify.

That’s all, let me know if you use it or if you sign up and it works for you!