Finding Online Media:
E-books, Movies, Music, & More
New downloadable eAudiobooks are now available at www.pamunkeylibrary.org/eaudiobooks.htm. More than 1,000 contemporary best-sellers and timeless classics are available for download from home to a wide range of MP3 players with just one click! Compatible with Apple's iPodŽ, iPhoneŽ, Creative Zen, Samsung, Sandisk and more!
Looking for ebooks for children age 5 and above? Try TumbleBooks, with picture books, read-alongs, non-fiction, games & puzzles, and more.
E-books and other downloadable content have become increasingly popular in the last few years. They are convenient and available 24/7 for users of PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. This list of sites will help you find all sorts of free content online. See our eReader flyer (.pdf 181K).
e-books (text) -- e-books (audio) -- Movies/Video -- Music
Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction.
The Open-Access Text Archive collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many using Creative Commons licenses. There are many e-book titles available in American Libraries, Project Gutenberg, and several other sub-collections. Check out the IA project Open Library, too.
Book Search works just like a web search. Search for a title or author or keywords. Books that are available for download will be marked with a "Full View" link. There are reference pages for every book so you can quickly find book reviews, web references, maps and more! Try out our Virginiana or Microfilm Bookshelves to see Google Books in action.
Baen Free Library
Baen Books, a
well-known publisher of fantasy and sci-fi books, is making available 100+ of
its titles in electronic format for free. You can read
these titles online or, if
you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats, with no
conditions or strings attached.
B&N offers around 100 free e-book titles available for download at any one time. Genres range from romance to sci-fi, horror and more! Free registration is required.
O'Reilly, a leading publisher of technical and computer-related books, has made available a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright.
This is an educational site which allows the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world's libraries. These digitized books (about 400 in all) are presented in a medium to medium-high resolution and range over a wide variety of topics and rarity.
Internet Archive Audio Books & Poetry
Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings! This library of audio books and poetry features digital recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg's Audio Book Project, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive users.
Open
Library's Accessible Books
This is part of the Internet Archive's collection of books available to the
print-impaired. Many are available in the
DAISY talking-book format or otherwise available in the Open Library.
While most titles are those in the public domain, other are recent works made
available through an exception in copyright that allows works to be copied for
the purpose of making them accessible. Works not in the public domain will
be made available only to qualified readers officially registered with the
Library of Congress's National Library Service
for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (find
out how to register).
The premier online collection of poets reading their own work. Also includes introductory notes on recordings and poets, bibliographies of poetry collections, guided tours around the Archive and themes which lead you on many different paths from poem to poem.
This site provides classic literature with accompanying audio narration. Includes novels and poetry that can be read online but requires an mp3 player for downloaded files.
Kiddie Records
Kiddie Records Weekly began as a one year project devoted to the golden age of
children's records from 1945-1955. Many of these classic recordings were
extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time
celebrities and composers.
UbuWeb
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all
strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. Materials on
UbuWeb are available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights
belong to the author(s).
Internet Archive
This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users
which range from full-length
films, to classic TV
shows, to stock
footage, and much more! Many of these videos are available for free
download.
UbuWeb
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the
avant-garde, ethno-poetics, and outsider arts. Materials on UbuWeb are
available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the
author(s).
C-Span has made its entire video archive, including over 8,000 episodes of BookTV, available in a streaming format. The archives cover every Congressional session, every White House press briefing and other acts of official Washington from 1987 to the present and include over 10,000 hours of programming from its inception in 1979 to 1986.
Internet Archive
Thousands of music files to download or stream, including the following:
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Live Music Archive - The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy in a lossless, downloadable format. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly non-commercial, both for access and for any further distribution.
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Netlabels - This collection hosts catalogs of 'virtual record labels,' non-profit, community-built entities dedicated to providing high quality, non-commercial, freely distributable MP3/OGG-format music for download in many genres.
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Grateful Dead - In this collection, you'll find downloadable shows (typically, audience recordings), and stream-only shows (typically, soundboard recordings).
WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. WFMU makes much of its content available online for free through the following blogs/sites.
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Beware of the Blog - Updated daily, this blog showcases many of the audio offerings at WFMU.
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Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
Do you know of other hidden treasures online? Want to know more about any of the sites on this list. Send your suggestions, questions, or comments to ask@pamunkeylibrary.org.
