Learn About Some of Our Reading Resources
Below are free and reduced price books available to you during this time.
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Ventura County eLibrary - cloudLibrary Checkout eBooks through the county’s public library system. Just use the number on the back of you library card to gain access. If you don’t have a card, you can apply for a free one online. https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/venturacountylibrary/Featured Simi Valley Public Library - cloudLibrary You may also access our local library’s cloudLibrary collection of free eBooks and audiobooks. https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/SimiValleyPublicLibrary/Featured Audible
Amazon is offering Audible for free. Audible gives access to audiobooks for all ages. For SSHS students, there is a teen section and a section of the classics. There is also a section for children and tweens. https://stories.audible.com/discovery Internet Archive
This free, online library offers access to academic and historical books. Internet Archive, in response to the crisis, has created a National Emergency Library, which eliminates waitlist for the 14 million books the have in their lending library. They are also offfering an on one collection from the Smitsonian. https://archive.org/ Open Library
An offshoot of the Internet Archives, Open Library has a collection of over a million eBooks. https://openlibrary.org/ Universal School Library
https://archive.org/details/uslprototype As part of Internet Archive, Uriversal School Library offers free access to core novels for schools. The books are listed by grade level. Grade 9: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Reading+Level-Grade+9%22 Grade 10: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Reading+Level-Grade+10%22 Grade 11: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Reading+Level-Grade+11%22 Grade 12: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Reading+Level-Grade+12%22 Adult: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Reading+Level-Adult%22 Hoopla
Apply for a free library card with Hoopla and gain access to free eBooks, music, movies, and more. https://www.hoopladigital.com/ Librivox
Another resource from Amazon, Librivox provides free access to audiobooks. At this site, volunteers read books that are in the public domain for all to enjoy.. https://librivox.org/ Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an free, online library of over 60,000 eBooks that are in the public domain. https://www.gutenberg.org Scribd
Scribd offers 30-day free trials to their eBook collection. You can find current books by best-selling authors. https://www.scribd.com/?lohp=2 FreeBooksy
This website offers a daily selection of free and reduced price books for Kindle, Apple, Nook, and Kobo Books. https://www.freebooksy.com/ PDF Books World
At the site, you can download PDF versions of classic novels, non-fiction, plays, and poetry. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/books Manybooks
Manybooks is another company that offers access to over 50,000 free and reduced price eBooks. https://manybooks.net/ Feedbooks
Feedbooks has a section that offers easy access to public domain books. http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain |