Kenny,
I don't know if your public library works in the same way as mine. What I found was, first, that you have to download the Zinio app if you want to read the magazines on an Android or iOS device (and possibly others). The app itself is always free.
Once installed, you can purchase magazines from within the app.
However, to read the free magazine provided by the library, you have to first log into the library's site, and then go from there to the Zinio site, and you have to do that on a PC or Mac. At that point, you can subscribe to any of the free magazines. You then go back to the Zinio app to read them.
Also, as far as I can see, you have to repeat the procedure each time a new issue comes out.
You don't have to side-load anything. The magazines just appear in the app.
I'm not completely sure about any of this. The above works for me, but there might be an easier route that I don't know about. No doubt other folk here can tell you more than I can.
Mike
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