eBooks & Audio Books
Check out an audiobook or e-book!
Check out ebooks and audiobooks on your Chromebook or any device.
Email me or Mr. Moore for your library ID and password
SORA:
Download this app and you can get ebooks through EPCHS, and you can connect this to your public library card.
Use your school gmail to log in. Setup code for app: ep309
ebooks you can read on your Chromebook
Email me or Mr. Moore for your username and password (epchs; raiders)
More ebook resources for you!!!
Free Audible books here. They are separated by age/grade/learning level, which is helpful. Harry Potter’s in there.
The Ultimate List! All different reading levels!
Simon and Schuster (large book company) are giving away one free e-book if you sign up. I got a good one…
I can’t express how awesome Internet Archive is. There are lawsuits against it right now, so hurry to get free books.
Open Library has all the classics for adults and kids. They are scanned in so you can see many of the original works.
Need free audiobooks. Librivox has you covered, baby.
If you have an iPhone, iPad, or any Mac, Apple Books has many free books right now.
Simon and Schuster free young adult books for September: https://rivetedlit.com
Fondulac Library is allowing those without a library card to get one online. Go here for info. Easy. Please share with your students.
You can do the same thing with Peoria Public here.
Digital Public Library of America: Lots of free books, particularly graphic novels
The Nautical Archeology Digital Library: A bunch of shipwrecks you can look up. Sounds boring but isn’t!
CIA’s Electronic Reading Room: War Stuff! UFOs! Need I say more???
Biodiversity Heritage Library: First thing on the list: “A History of Cats.” Need I say more?
New York Public Library: Cool scans of actual documents held at the library. Really cool history stuff.
National Library of Medicine: Cool medical stuff from past and present. Some gross stuff, too.
A collection of kids books read by famous people. Cute for littles.
This is a large collection of completely free textbooks. Might be helpful if you are wanting to eliminate physical textbooks or if we are not in school next year.
Achieve 3000: This site gives excellent articles for free differentiated literary instruction through grade 12. Really great stuff here.
Learning Ally: This audiobook site reads (by humans) 80,000 textbooks to students. Good for audio learners.
Open Access: This list from Harvard is a decent amount of free textual and art content.
Sora: Sora is an app created by Overdrive, which is the largest e-book and audiobook company in the United States. Our school will be using this app, so if you want to download it now, go ahead. We will be purchasing ebooks to use here, but this coordinates with your (and students’) public library card, so they can read endless ebooks/audiobooks. More information coming soon.
Biblioboard is free and has many classics and other textual materials for open use.
Project Gutenberg is a good source, but won't have current, hot titles: https://www.gutenberg.org/