EBOOKS
Amazon offers free books every
day. Really. They're e-books and the lineup changes constantly. Visit the
"Kindle Store: Free" section of that online juggernaut and download
away. Not to be outdone, Barnes and Noble also puts free titles up for grabs.
But what if you can't find the
ones you want? Suppose, for example, that you're besotted with Benedict
Cumberbatch in the BBC series "Sherlock" and decide you want to read
the Holmes works. Not every library will have all 56 short stories and four
Holmes novels, but you can download 48 of the works for free from a site called
221BakerStreet.org.
Millions of e-books in every
imaginable genre are available without charge at a number of other sites
online. A tremendous resource is Gizmo's Freeware site, Free eBooks and Audio
Books to Read Online or Download. It lists 913 sites for free e-books, sorting
by genres like autobiography, horror, romance, travel, young adult/teen and
math. In addition, it features 224 places to find free audiobooks.
Too overwhelming? Try a few
individual sites like:
Open Library -- more than 1.6 million
books, dating back as far as 1008.
Project Gutenberg -- more than 45,000
titles.
Google Play -- more than 4 million titles,
at least half of which are free.
ManyBooks.net -- more than 29,000 e-books,
with a "genre filter" to help refine your results.
Freegal
Hi do you know about
Freegal®? It is a free music service
from your library. All you need is your library card number and some libraries
utilize a PIN. Freegal offers access to about 7 million songs, including Sony
Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection is comprised of
music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 80 countries.
There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management
(DRM) restrictions. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing
libraries
there are restrictions on the
number of songs you can downloads each week or month.
see the FAQ at:
Hoopla
Hoopla is here! We are delighted
to offer this new service that allows Somerville patrons free access to
thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, and audiobooks for mobile
devices and computers.
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