You can also join by the day, but that's not nearly so much fun. You use your membership card to check out a bike. Sometimes membership cards are also Metro cards. While the program is supported by advertizing supplied to JC Decaux, all fees go to the City of Paris.
The other side of the kiosk, in Paris anyway, will tell you where to find more bikes, or where there is a free station to return your bike, depending on what you ask it. It can also provide a 15-minute extension on the 30-minutes-free limit if all pods at that station are full. When I was there, the kiosks worked in 5 European languages.
Finally, stations at the tops of hills offer time bonuses in the form of a 15-minutes longer free checkout time bonus to help with bicycle redistribution.
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