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Magazines

Overview

Enjoy CELA’s collection of magazines covering a full range of interests from news and current events, business, lifestyle, health, home and food, entertainment, science and technology. Choose from popular magazines available in full text within a day of publication.

Additional magazines are offered in human-narrated audio and embossed braille.

How to read DAISY magazines

  • iOS or Android
  • Desktop or laptop
  • DAISY players
  • Full text magazine FAQs
  • Braille display: Full text magazines may be read on a braille display by downloading the EPUB zip file, opening the file in the EasyReader app and connecting to your braille display.

Subscribe to Direct to Player magazines

  • Subscribe and manage magazine subscriptions in My Account.

Discontinued magazines

These magazines have been discontinued, but back issues remain available.

  • A to Z list of discontinued magazines
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Magazines by format


  • Full text magazines (DAISY text, EPUB and Word)
  • Human-narrated audio magazines (DAISY)
  • Braille magazines

Full text magazines (DAISY text, EPUB and Word)

CELA provides access to over 150 popular magazines within a day of publication. The magazines are offered in DAISY text, EPUB and Word formats. They include the full text of magazine articles as well as images for those who can use them but no recorded audio. You may add them to your Direct to Player bookshelf or download them from the website in DAISY text, EPUB and Word formats.

The magazines can be read with a DAISY player using Direct to Player service, a braille display, or apps such as Dolphin EasyReader or Voice Dream Reader for iOS/Android. Your DAISY reader app or hardware device will read the text aloud to you, if you wish. Depending on the app or device you use, you can also adapt the text in other ways to meet your needs. For magazine tutorials, see How to read DAISY magazines.

A to Z list of full text magazines

  • All full text magazines in alphabetical order

Full text magazines by category

News and current affairs

  • Advocate
  • Economist
  • The Goodnewspaper
  • Maclean's
  • New York Magazine
  • New Yorker
  • Newsweek
  • Reader's Digest Canada
  • Time

Top of categories

Arts and culture

  • Booklist
  • Literary Review of Canada
  • A Modern Gay's Guide
  • New York Review of Books
  • Smithsonian

Top of categories

Bridal

  • The Knot Weddings Magazine

Top of categories

Business and finance

  • Adweek
  • Canadian Business
  • Economist
  • Entrepreneur
  • Fast Company
  • Forbes
  • Fortune
  • Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Wired

Top of categories

Children

  • Ask Science and Arts Magazine
  • Black Girl's Magazine
  • Chickadee
  • Chirp
  • Click Science and Discovery Magazine
  • Cricket
  • Girls' World
  • girlworks
  • Ladybug
  • Muse
  • National Geographic Little Kids
  • OWL
  • Spider

See also Magazines for teens
Top of categories

Computers and internet

  • Android Advisor
  • AppleMagazine
  • Essential Apple User Magazine
  • iPad & iPhone User
  • iPad User
  • iPhone Life
  • MacLife
  • Macworld
  • Minecraft World Magazine
  • PCWorld
  • Wired

Top of categories

Entertainment and celebrities

  • Billboard
  • Globe
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • Hello!
  • Hello! Canada
  • In Touch Weekly
  • People
  • Rolling Stone
  • Soap Opera Digest
  • Star
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Us Weekly

Top of categories

Fashion and beauty

  • Chatelaine
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Elle
  • Elle Canada
  • FASHION
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • The Knot Weddings Magazine
  • Vanity Fair
  • Vogue
  • W Magazine

Top of categories

Food and drink

  • Allrecipes
  • BBC Good Food Magazine
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Bon Appetit
  • Canadian Living
  • Chatelaine
  • Cooking Light
  • Cooking with Paula Deen
  • Cook's Illustrated
  • Food Network Magazine
  • Food & Wine
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Pioneer Woman
  • Southern Living
  • Taste of Home
  • Toronto Life
  • VegNews Magazine

Top of categories

French language

  • 01net
  • 7 Jours
  • Avantages
  • Châtelaine
  • Clin d'oeil
  • Cool!
  • Cosmopolitan France
  • Coup de Pouce
  • Cuisine A&D
  • Cuisine et Vins de France
  • Dernière Heure
  • Elle France
  • Elle Québec
  • Express
  • Le français dans le monde
  • GQ France
  • Idées de ma maison
  • Le journal de dimanche
  • Lire
  • Marie Claire France
  • Marie Claire Idées
  • Marie France
  • Paris Match
  • Rolling Stone France
  • Star Système
  • Top Santé
  • Vanity Fair France
  • Vogue Paris

Top of categories

Health and fitness

  • Diabetes Self-Management
  • Men's Health
  • Prevention
  • Runner's World
  • STRONGFIT Magazine
  • Women's Health

Top of categories

History

  • BBC History Magazine
  • Smithsonian

Top of categories

Home and garden

  • ABC Organic Gardener Magazine
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Canadian Living
  • Country Living
  • Dwell
  • Family Handyman
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Harrowsmith
  • HGTV Magazine
  • Homes & Gardens
  • House Beautiful
  • Magnolia Journal
  • Southern Living
  • Town & Country
  • Woman's Day

Top of categories

Inspirational

  • Angels on Earth
  • Guideposts

Top of categories

Lifestyle

  • Canadian Living
  • Car and Driver
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Country Living
  • Elle
  • Elle Canada
  • First for Women
  • GAY TIMES
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • Knitter
  • Mindful
  • New York Magazine
  • Our Canada
  • OUT
  • Outside
  • Rachael Ray In Season
  • Southern Living
  • Toronto Life
  • Town & Country
  • Vanity Fair
  • W Magazine
  • Woman's Day
  • Zoomer

Top of categories

Literary

  • New York Review of Books
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Reader's Digest (American version; February and March 2020 issues delayed)

Top of categories

Men

  • Esquire
  • GQ
  • Maxim

Top of categories

Music

  • Billboard
  • Rolling Stone

Top of categories

Nature

  • Discover
  • How It Works
  • Popular Science
  • Smithsonian

Top of categories

Parenting

  • Babybug
  • Living with Christ
  • The Week Junior US

Top of categories

Science and technology

  • AppleMagazine
  • BBC Science Focus Magazine
  • Cannabis & Tech Today
  • Discover
  • How It Works
  • New Scientist
  • Popular Mechanics
  • Popular Science
  • Science Illustrated
  • Smithsonian

Top of categories

Sports

  • Bicycling
  • Canadian Cycling Magazine
  • Canadian Running
  • Hockey News
  • Runner's World
  • Sports Illustrated

Top of categories

Teens

  • Cricket
  • J-14
  • Muse
  • Teen Black Girl's Magazine

Top of categories

Travel and geography

  • Conde Nast Traveler
  • More of Our Canada
  • National Geographic
  • National Geographic Traveler (UK)
  • New York Magazine
  • Our Canada
  • Travel + Leisure

Top of categories

Human-narrated audio magazines (DAISY)

CELA offers several popular audio magazines narrated in human voice in English, French and Mandarin. Patrons may subscribe to each magazine through Direct to Player to receive the new edition straight to their bookshelf, or check out individual editions to their Direct to Player bookshelf, or download them in DAISY zip formats. These magazines are available about 4 weeks after publication. 

We also offer a bundle of all English or all French magazines on CD, delivered every two months. To receive magazines on CD, contact us at 1-855-655-2273 or help@celalibrary.ca. Please note magazine CDs do not need to be returned.

Audio magazines available:

  • Canadian Geographic
  • Chatelaine
  • Good Times
  • Maclean's
  • Reader's Digest (Canadian version; also available in DAISY text on day of publication)
  • What's New (CELA's list of the DAISY books most recently added to the collection)
  • Actualité (French)
  • Bel Âge (French)
  • Sélection du Reader's Digest (French)
  • Virage (French)

Braille magazines

CELA patrons may subscribe to receive embossed copies of contracted braille magazines in the mail that are of special interest to braille readers and on a range of topics including news and current affairs, computers and internet, health and fitness, parenting, teens, and more. Individual e-braille issues may be downloaded. To receive these magazines, contact us at 1-855-655-2273 or help@celalibrary.ca. 

Embossed braille magazines do not need to be returned.

Note: Subscribe to Braille Books Acquired (a listing of CELA's recently acquired braille books) on our Newsletters page.

Braille magazines available by category:

Braille news
Computers and technology
Games
Music
News and current affairs

Braille news

  • Braille Literacy Canada

Computers and technology

  • Access IT
  • Compute IT

Games

  • Conundrum

Music

  • Braille music

News and current affairs

  • Progress

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The Centre for Equitable Library Access, CELA, is an accessible library service, providing books and other materials to Canadians with print disabilities.

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