Today I learned
Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money – USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Helpful links to all of the above:
Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/
Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
Freegal: https://www.freegalmusic.com/home
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More places to find FREE EBOOKS:
Standard eBooks (basically stuff off of Project Gutenberg, but prettified)
Book Bub – Free eBooks and Free Kindle books
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Useful if you’re an ebook power user: Calibre
many libraries also give you access to KANOPY which has free movies (mostly documentaries but last i checked Moonlight was on there!)
A big chunk of the criterion collection is on Kanopy, as are a lot of the Great Courses sets! It trends toward indie stuff and documentaries definitely though.
RB Digital is another one a lot of libraries have, for magazines.
Also for Overdrive, there’s a new, improved app that’s much easier to use called Libby. You can download it plus the apps for hoopla, rb digital, and freegal in the Apple and google play stores then just plug in your library card info and get going.
Oh and if you’re running into paywalls with your online newspaper reading, libraries got your back there too – most of us provide access to the big ones and whatever the local papers are.
Finally, for any of my Massachusetts folks that don’t know, literally everybody in the state can get a Boston library card, physical or digital, and they have a pretty dang robust set of databases you can use as well as most of the above mentioned (I don’t think they have kanopy as of now but I’d have to double check).