Taking reading online? There’s an app for that! Join us as we meld the world of reading and technology. There are lots of great apps out there to help you encourage reading, track your reading, create lists for your reading and interact with your good old fashioned paper books in a 21st century way. Participants shared their favorite apps (or sites) they are already using and loving to help create or maintain a love of reading. Appy Hour is a way to share the best in technology applications (apps/websites/programs, etc) that are being used in your lessons and teaching.
Wattpad - user created stories and fan fic
Litsy - Social Media for Books (Instagram + Twitter) - LibGuide from @DrydenLibrarian
Goodreads App - Social Media for Books (Think Amazon but just reviews)
Epic! - Free eBooks for Educators
ComicFlow - Read Comics on your device
RazKids (Not Free)
MyOn (Not Free)
https://www.biblionasium.com - keeps track of pages read, monitor reading
Free Books (23K free eBooks) - Classics (iOS)
Elementary - Top 15 Apps
https://www.teachingbooks.net/ - Includes author and illustrator interviews, name pronunciations, lesson plans, links to free supplemental materials and a strong title discovery tool (Not free)
https://s2.netgalley.com/ - Teachers and librarians can sign up to receive free digital Advance Readers Copies of upcoming releases
https://archive.org/ - The Internet Archive; attempts to create a digital trail of the websites and communications that would otherwise disappear. The Wayback Machine allows you to view websites as they looked on given dates in the past - can be a way to access documents that have been taken down from the web or to peer back through history!
https://librivox.org/ - A collaboration between Project Gutenberg and archive.org - free public domain audiobooks
https://openlibrary.org/ - Like Wikipedia for books, also includes a free lending library of 350,000 books
https://dp.la/ - Digital Public Library of America
NYPL SimplyE - The New York Public Library's brand new ebook portal, which makes ebook lending easier and more seamless than ever!
www.naturebooklist.com - Pairs nature-based fiction and nonfiction titles and provides activity ideas
Syllable - speedreading app
Audible - The classic audiobook store. Requires a paid subscription, but if you are an audiobook addict the wide selection and great app are worth it
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk - Excellent resource for readers advisory, a very easy way to make sense of the titles in a series
http://www.kidsreads.com/ - reviews by students for students
https://nearpod.com/ - Nearpod is interactive powerpoints, free things to download, you can bring all presentations to the students on their device, curriculum related freemium, digital citizenship
http://www.audiobooksync.com/ - free audiobooks during the summer
www.literature-map.com - Simple tool, enter the name of an author and see a map of other authors you may enjoy!
www.yournextread.com/us - Enter a book that you loved and instantly get recommendations along with reviews!
www.openingthebook.com/whichbook - allows you to select appeal terms and come away with a whole booklist
http://www.themillions.com/ - Literary essays, reviews and analysis with a modern twist
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner - Literary blog by the New Yorker, collects their articles that relate in some way to literature and writers - a fascinating mix of long reads and reviews
http://bookriot.com/ - If the New Yorker is a bit too academic for your taste, Book Riot offers up everything from podcasts, videos, book clubs, reviews and pop culture connections. (Check out their Beliefs statement!)
http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/ - A fun little mashup of literary quotes with pop culture images
One Star Book Review - Exactly what it sounds like - the comments of people who left one star reviews on classic literature
https://catapult.co/ - A magazine/community/workshop/publisher for high caliber literature
https://www.libib.com/ - A cloud based cataloging platform for personal or small organizational libraries, equipped to manage books, media and video games. A pro version is available but the free version is powerful.
https://www.comixology.com/ - A platform for browsing, purchasing and reading manga and graphic novels (Not free)
We Read Too - An app geared toward connecting children with books written by and featuring diverse people
http://www.shelfie.com/ - Allows you to download ebook versions of print books that you own, discounted or free - digitize your home bookshelf!
http://www.bookbub.com - daily emails of ebooks you might like to read (low cost and free ebooks)
Weberbooks.com - daily emails (kindle buffet) with many free kindle downloads as well as inexpensive offerings and new release reviews.
http://yalit.com - YA Lit has upcoming young adult titles listed by release date
http://www.librarything.com a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata