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Activities for Adults: E-books & Audiobooks

Stuck inside? Enjoy these resources for a rainy, or not so rainy day!

Book Groups

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 is still around to bring us all challenging and inspiring stories straight from Oprah's shelf.

Reese's Book Club - Join Reese Witherspoon and her community for a book each month with a woman at the center of the story. There's no formula to the books chosen - just a dedication to thoughtful stories and new connections to books, authors, and readers!

Read with Jenna - Each month, Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of the Today Show, chooses a book that she loves to read and share.

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.

History Book Club is one of Goodreads' bigger communities. Participants can share information and discuss their favorite time periods.

WIRED had an excellent book club focusing on science fiction that ended in 2017. But their archives are still great for inspiration!

"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, Digital Audiobooks, and Comics

You can access thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, comics and more using your library card!

Browse ebooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines using the Libby app or our Overdrive catalog at https://rcls.overdrive.com/
Check out tons of comics and graphic novels with Comics Plus and LibraryPass

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Here are some helpful hints that Digital Bookmobile staff would like to share so that you get the most out of your Libby experience. Click the link here to learn these hints and make using Libby even better!

Still need an answer to your question? Check out the Library Pass Reader Support Resource Center for more detailed explanations!

Free E-books and Audiobooks

LibriVox Audiobooks
Downloadable recorded versions of books in the Public Domain narrated by volunteers.
Open Library
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.
Audiobooks Narrated by Edward E. French
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
Downloadable E-books from Open Culture
Download 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.
Downloadable Audiobooks from Open Culture
Download 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.