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Digital Reading Resources MackinVIA – Access to all of Wissahickon library’s online resources. Both ebook and audio are available. Students use their school email/password to log in. https://wissahickon.mackinvia.com/titles?page=1&limit=18&sort=0&resourceType=3 ManyBooks – an awesome resource (completely free) that categorizes ebooks by genre. https://manybooks.net/ The Overdrive and Libby Apps – just need a library card. You will have access to all of the e-books and audio books that are currently available in your country’s public library system. Download on a smartphone to begin. https://app.overdrive.com/#download https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/ ReadPrint: Easy to search through – wide selection of free online books. http://www.readprint.com/online-books Goodreads – has a “Free Online” selection. Their Young Adult counterpart, EpicReads, is also linked below, but that only has books available for sale. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/free-online https://www.epicreads.com/ Project Gutenberg: With a collection of more than 45,000 free e-books, Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to create and share e-books online. The online format is a bit awkward to search through, but it is a good place. If you google the title of a book and “PDF” (i.e., Tom Sawyer PDF) this is the version that will usually come up. https://www.gutenberg.org/ Googlebooks: This option has limited selection of free books, however it just takes a bit of searching to come up with something good. https://play.google.com/store/books Openculture – mostly high level classics, but a great aggregator of resources! http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks .

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