Digital Material
Remote learning and the physical closure of libraries has highlighted the need for access to eBooks and audiobooks for both students and educators. Librarians have risen to the challenge by reconsidering their budgets, seeking out free and affordable resources, and hunting down specific titles for their patrons.
The resources below include both free and subscription platforms to consider for accessing eBooks and audiobooks.
We will continue to add to this page as we learn of other quality resources.
Free eBook and AudioBook Resources
Children's Books
International Children's Digital Library: Over 4,600 children's books in 59 languages.
Epic! Unlimited: Free access to thousands of books for teachers (for school use only).
Toon Book Read: Read graphic novels for kids in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese.
DK Find Out!: Online encyclopedia for kids.
Storyline Online: Videos of celebrities reading picture books aloud.
Classics
Project Gutenberg: Tens of thousands of free books in English, Portuguese, French, and German.
Classic Reader: Online library of thousands of free books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.
Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
Open Culture: Free ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, language lessons, and more.
Kindle: Free classics and others available for Amazon Kindle.
Subscription Options
Multi-Use Digital Subscriptions
Tales2Go: Audiobook subscription with on-demand and simultaneous access to a catalog of over 10,000 titles
Junior Library Guild: Unlimited access to a revolving collection of eBook titles
TumbleBooks and Teen BookCloud: Subscription service with unlimited access to eBooks, audiobooks and enhanced books (read-alongs)
Gale eBooks: Quality multi-use non-fiction k-12 collection