Other Free Online Resources
Free Online Books Resource Collection
Below you'll find a list of clickable links to sources that offer free online book resources. These are not sponsored by MCPL nor require a library card to access. Please note: not all resources may be entirely free. We hope this curated list is helpful to lose looking for additional resources.
Kansas State Library - Bookflix: Focus on PreK to third grade readers. Animated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading while sparking curiosity, creating a natural springboard into the paired nonfiction text for deeper discovery. Titles are always available with no limits.
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Kansas State Library - Databases: A collection of databases for genealogy, education and more!
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Kansas State Library - Digital Books: BookFlix, Britannica Collective, Kansas History Books, Comics Plus and More!
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Kansas State Library - Government Information: Kansas Data Reports, KDHE Data, Historical Kansas Information, School District Information and Organization Information.
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Kansas State Library - Learning Resources: CareerOneStop, Ferguson's Career Guidance Center, LearningExpress College Center, Mango Languages, ReadIt! and more!
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Kansas State Library - Kansas State Data Center: Institute for Policy and Social Research, Statewide Data Resources and more!
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Open Culture eBooks: "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."
Of course, there are lots of other options found here besides eBooks.
Planet eBook: "A list of all the free ePUB, PDF and MOBI eBooks published on Planet eBook."
Standard E-Books: A collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks.
Project Gutenberg: a library of over 60,000 free eBooks, featuring the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
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The Online Books Page: Provides a searchable database to a long list of authors and books that have fallen into Public Domain. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania, which also highlights a celebration of women writers.
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Bibliomania: Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, in easy formatting to make it accessible to the visually impaired using screen readers and speech synthesizers.
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HathiTrust: A partnership of academic and research institutions, it offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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Many Books: More than 50,000 free ebooks in a number of genres, you can also search for books in multiple languages.
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Free Computer Books: Provides books on computers/coding, mathematics, technical books, and more, as well as lecture notes. This site only provides links, the books are hosted on multiple other sites.
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Librivox: provides free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world.
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International Children’s Digital Library: a digital library of outstanding children’s books from around the world and in hundreds of languages.
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Internet Archive: a library of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts, and academic books based on a wide range of interests. Includes archives of old radio shows too.​
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Free eBooks.net: Offers five free books per month of fiction, nonfiction, academic, textbooks, and (children and adult) audiobooks.
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ProPlay: Offers the text of professionally-produced stage plays.
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Audible (Amazon): They are offering some e-audiobooks for free, esp aimed at children
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The Chronicles of Now: Short fiction torn from today’s headlines; major authors are commissioned to write short stories inspired by news of the day.
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Ghost City Press: Offers pdfs of their annual Micro-Chapbook Series; poetry.
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Junior Library Guild: Offering free access to online reading platforms. Includes access to Aiden Tyler, Quaran-Teen, a new and original story being updated in real time, illustrated, and read aloud by Rex Ogle each week.
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enki: Offers open access to a large range of e-books; includes graphic novels and kids’ comics. (may be CA-based only)
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Epic Stream: A list of where to find the over 450 volumes of manga being made available to read for free online.
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Roadmap to Resilience: Recommended by PC Behavioral Health, this book by Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. has been made free and offers help in dealing with the crisis.
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The Digital Public Library of America now has Open Bookshelf
https://freebooks.dp.la/collection/groups
Additional information for libraries here
https://pro.dp.la/ebooks/open-bookshelf
Audiobooks.com - free audiobooks
LibriVox - free audiobooks
