Activities for Adults: E-books & Audiobooks
Book Groups
Our Shared Shelf, a feminist book club with over 100,000 members. Each month the group chooses a new book that deals with themes of race, gender, and justice, and opens up a friendly, literary dialogue on Goodreads.
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 is still around to bring us all challenging and inspiring stories straight from Oprah's shelf.
Reese Witherspoon holds a monthly book club through Instagram, with opportunities for author questions and social media discussions on each book she picks.
History Book Club is one of Goodreads' bigger communities. Participants can share information and discuss their favorite time periods.
WIRED has an excellent book club focusing on science fiction.
Hannah Witton, Lucy Moon and Leena Norms read a book about sex and gender every month and discuss the book through their podcast of the same name.
"Booklist is a book-review magazine that has been published by the American Library Association for more than 100 years, and is widely viewed as offering the most reliable reviews to help libraries decide what to buy and to help library patrons and students decide what to read, view, or listen to" (Booklist Online, 2020). Normally a subscription service, Booklist has announced free online access for all. Find more information about Booklist here!
Get Help with Borrowing
Find videos and information on assistance using Overdrive and Libby here.
ebooks and audiobooks from our library
You can access hundreds of ebooks, audiobooks, videos, and more. Visit https://rcls.overdrive.com/ to explore!
How to use Libby
Tips and Tricks for Libby
Here are three helpful hints Digital Bookmobile staff like to share so that you get the most out of your Libby experience. Click the link here to learn these hints and apply them to your usage!
How to use Overdrive
Free E-books and Audiobooks
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Downloadable recorded versions of books in the Public Domain narrated by volunteers.
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An initiative by Internet Archive to create an online library of fiction and non-fiction works. Sign up for a free account from Internet Archive to check out up to 10 books today! Some books may only be read in browser due to restrictions placed on them by he publisher or author.
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Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction works in the public domain narrated by Oscar, and Emmy award nominated special FX makeup artist Edward E. French
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Downloadable E-books from Open CultureDownload 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce.
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Downloadable Audiobooks from Open CultureDownload hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more.