Audiobooks
and Ebooks (Library-card needed)
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premier link to hundreds of audiobook and ebook titles:
TumbleBooks
E-books for kids. Includes talking animated picture-books and story-books
in audio format.
TumbleReadables
An online collection of read-along titles, including early readers and
chapter-books. Sentences are highlighted as they are read.
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Audiobooks:
Literal
Systems Audiobooks
MP3 readings and performances of classic literary works, downloadable
to iTunes, iPod or windows media player.
Free Classic Audiobooks
Short list of audio books that can be downloaded in an mp3 format or onto
your iPod. The site also offers a feature that presents text with narration.
Audiobooks
For Free
Great selection of free fiction and nonfiction audio books. The fiction
section offers audiobooks in a variety of genres such as adventure, westerns,
classics and mysteries. There are children's titles and a large choice
of adult non-fiction.
Librivox
Librivox's mission statement is to make all public domain books available
as free audiobooks. This site offers a selection of fiction, poetry, short
works and works in other languages in an audiobook format.
Audiobook Radio
Audiobookradio is an online radio station that broadcasts audiobooks.
The site offers a selection of audiobooks that play 24/7. To check when
a title will be read just look at the program schedule.
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eBooks:
Project
Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg contains over 18,000 free e-books by a variety of authors
in three general categories: Light Literature, Classics and Reference.
The service also offers audiobooks, sheet music and works in other languages.
Nearly all PDAs and eBook readers can display the Project Gutenberg plain
text (.txt) files. Most can display HTML (.htm) and PDF files. A small
number of files are available in .prc and .lit format.
ibiblio: the public's library and digital
archive
A collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University
of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, ibiblio is an archive of free information,
including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics,
and cultural studies.
Bartleby: Great Books Online
Bartleby's provides a wide range of fiction including full text poetry
anthologies, out of print fiction and non-fiction titles. Also provides
access to free full-text reference resources such as Grey's Anatomy, Strunk's
Elements of Style, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Columbia Encyclopedia
and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus.
The Online Books Page
The Online books page has over 25,000 free downloadable books, collections
and serials available in PDF, HTML and other formats. The "Features"
section provides "special exhibits" or collections of online
book links by theme such as women writers and banned books. The "Archives
and Indexes" section provides links for foreign language and specialty
titles.
Free Books
An excellent guide to free e-book libraries produced throughout the world,
offering titles in science, religion and sacred texts, myths and legends,
languages and reference. HTML, PDF, and Palm files available.
Google Books
Google book search is meant for you to browse books - new and old - providing
you with either the full book view, a snippet of the book or just a listing
with no content (depending on copyright restrictions). Google Book Search
finds pretty much any kind of book you can imagine: fiction, non-fiction,
reference, scholarly, textbooks, children's books, scientific, medical,
professional, educational, etc. Search by topic or title and you can search
within a book as well.
Web Books
This site offers a selection of fiction and non-fiction works. The downloadable
version is in EXE or ZIP format (collectively called web-books). The EXE
format can be viewed by Internet Explorer. The ZIP format is a collection
of HTML files that can be viewed by any device (laptop, PDA, smartphone,
etc.) with a web browser.
Internet
Public Library Reading Room
A large catalogue of links to free e-book sites. These sites range in
interest from mythology, Aesop's fables, great literature and Shakespeare.
Perseus Digital Library
Offers free copies of classic works by such authors as Demosthenes, Cicero,
Euripides, Hesiod, and Plato etc. Besides these primary works, there are
also commentaries and histories by modern classics.
Internet Classics Archive
Over 400 classical works by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman (some
Chinese and Persian) all in English translation.
Google Shakespeare
The complete plays of Shakespeare, fully searchable by phrase. Want to
know how often tyranny is mentioned in The Tempest? Search the book and
you will be taken to each page.
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Podcasts:
Canada
Podcasts
Hooray for Canadian Content. This Canadian-run service collects podcast
links on a variety of subjects including arts & entertainment, business,
finance, crafts, food, education, the environment, politics, science,
sports and technology to name a few. A truly Canadian site containing
podcasts submitted from across the country.
CBC
Podcasts
Our national broadcaster showcases television and radio reports and stories
on a variety of topics.
iTunes
Podcasts
This link leads to instructions on how to search, download and subscribe
to free podcasts via the iTunes store. iTunes installation and access
to the iTunes store required.
Online Audio and Video from the New York Public Library
Just as the title suggests users can access audio and video presentations
from Jazz to author readings. Photographs and exhibits are also accessible
via this page.
PBS
Podcasts
American Public Broadcasting provides subscription links to several of
its flagship broadcasts including NOVA, the American Experience, Nature,
and Great Performances as well as excerpts and full versions of some of
its most iconic documentary subjects.
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