Books and Audiobooks
Bartleby - This site bills itself as... “the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse - providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.” You can search the site by subject, author, and title.
BookBub - BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover great deals on acclaimed eBooks while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans. Members receive a personalized daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by our editorial team. BookBub works with all major eBook retailers and devices, and is the industry’s leading eBook price promotion service.
Book Track - "Booktrack, is a web based application that allows users read digital books with an audio soundrack or sound effects that go along with the book their are reading. This technology can help the reader to better picture or imagine what they are reading.
Book Track also allows users "to create an audio soundtrack that syncs up to books and other text based assignments. Studies have shown over and over that students have a much higher attention rate when their environment is filled with sound" (source) |
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Digital Public Library of America - The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used, through its three main elements:
- A portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in America. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, format, and topic.
- A platform that enables new and trans-formative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. With an application programming interface (API) and maximally open data, the DPLA can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools for discovery, and engaging apps.
Free e-books in nearly 700 categories! E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible e-books, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit your own e-books, or add other resources you come across. Look below for the main directory of categories. This website is now completely redesigned to be accessible to mobile devices with small screen sizes. The look is somewhat different now, but the content is the same. At the moment, they have exactly 10597 free e-books in 688 categories.
GoodReads - Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads launched in January 2007.
A Few Things You Can Do On Goodreads
A Few Things You Can Do On Goodreads
- See which books your friends are reading.
- Track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read.
- Check out your personalized book recommendations. Our recommendation engine analyzes 20 billion data points to give suggestions tailored to your literary tastes.
- Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.
Google Books - Searching Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. If you find a book you like that's not free, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow the print book. You can now also buy the eBook from the Google Play Store. We've created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more.
The Internet Archive - The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
- Video - 1,298,174 movies
- Live Music - 117,181 concerts
- Audio - 1,648,055 recordings
- Texts - 4,600,607 texts
- Open Library - One web page for every book ever published. Over 20 million books already have a page on OpenLibrary.org, and over 1 million of those give you access to a full-text, downloadable version.
- Software Archive - The Software Archive is designed to preserve and provide access to all kinds of rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable software titles and background information on those titles.
- Wayback Machine - Internet Archive's web archive, launched in 1996, contains over 2 petabytes of data compressed, or 150+ billion web captures, including content from every top-level domain, 200+ million web sites, and over 40 languages.
- NASA Images - NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections. NASAImages.org is the largest collection of NASA media available from a single, searchable site.
Kindle Unlimited - Amazon.com now offers Kindle Unlimited, where you can read from thousands of books available for the low price of $9.99 a month. You don't need to own a Kindle device to enjoy Kindle Unlimited. With their free Kindle reading apps, you can read on any device with the Kindle app installed. And of course, you can always read on your Kindle. With Kindle Unlimited, you can take every word, every sentence, every story, everywhere you go. Kindle Unlimited also offers thousands of Kindle books that have been adapted to be an audio book. You can now listen to many books in the car, on the bus, on the plane etc. to make reading more accessible to everyone.
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Librivox - LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Loyal Books - You'll always find the best collection of completely free public domain audio books and eBooks at Loyal Books. We also offer best sellers for those who want the newest books but mostly you'll find an overwhelming selection of free books to enjoy.
Free - All audio books on LoyalBooks are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including LoyalBooks is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on LoyalBooks.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.
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Free - All audio books on LoyalBooks are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including LoyalBooks is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on LoyalBooks.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.
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ManyBooks.Net - The best eBooks at the best price: free! Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they're all free! If you still can't decide what to read you might want to browse through some covers to see what strikes your fancy. Or try the Recent Additions to the library, with genre filter.
OverDrive - With OverDrive, you can borrow and enjoy free eBooks, audiobooks, and more from your library or school's digital collection. All you need to get started is an internet connection, a library card or student ID, and these three steps:
- Find your library: Find and open your library or school's digital collection
- Borrow: Borrow a title from your library or school's digital collection. You'll need a valid library card or student ID to complete this step.
- Enjoy: You can enjoy many titles immediately online, download them for offline use, or send borrowed eBooks to a Kindle device (U.S. libraries only) for the duration of your lending period.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: choose among free ePub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
Storybird - This site gives people the chance to write and read stories written by others in the community. You can use their illustrations to create beautiful picture books and help your story come to life. With others in the community, you get feedback on your writing to help you flourish your skills.
Checkout Storybird for educators and for parents to learn more about how teachers and parents can help their children learn writing and reading skills in this fun interface.
Checkout Storybird for educators and for parents to learn more about how teachers and parents can help their children learn writing and reading skills in this fun interface.
Storyline Online - Listen to and watch a wonderful selection of children’s stories (see partial list below), read by popular movie and TV actors. Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading.Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.
Some books provided on the site include:
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Thrift Books - an online book store that sells all your favorite books for low prices, many for under $4 and with free shipping on all orders over $10.
What Should I Read Next - Do you need a new book to read, but don't know what to read. Use this website! Simply, type the title of a book you already love into the search and the site will analyse its huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next. Try it out.
Page last updated June 11, 2018