Digital Media

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Some e-book and audiobook titles are not available as downloadables to libraries. View information on publishers' restrictions.

Additional eBooks Over 34,000 copyright-free Classics that never expire and don’t count against your library checkout limit. Easily accessible via the CLAMS Digital Download site, powered by OverDrive. Not available for Kindle. Kindle users, go directly to Project Gutenberg.

Freegal Music Free downloadable music from the Sony Music Catalog. Several CLAMS Libraries subscribe to this service. You must have a library card from one of these libraries to use the service. For more information please check with your local CLAMS Library.

TumbleBooks Animated storybooks for younger children which can be played with sound or a computer or read aloud by a child with the sound off. TumbleBooks also has a variety of games and audiobooks. Available at these libraries.

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Free public domain e-Book resources
Note: most of these are not good for current bestsellers.

Project Gutenberg - dedicated to providing as many free Public Domain texts as possible in electronic format.
"Public Domain" means the texts are no longer copyrighted in the United States.
Library of Congress Digital Books
Google Books (beta)
University of Virginia Online Library - good for foreign language material
Making of America (Univ. of Michigan & Cornell) - Primary resources, U.S. History
Perseus Digital Library (Tufts Univ.)
The On-Line Books Page (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Harvard University Open Collections Program
Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library
University of Illinois (allows free access to its collection of award-winning books on history)
Open Library (variety of formats, including ePub and Kindle)

Even more free eBooks

Free Audiobooks
Note: most of these are not good for current bestsellers.

LibriVox
Project Gutenberg Audio Books project
The Internet Archive
Verkaro
Audio Books for Free
Open Culture
Books should be free
Learn out loud