eBooks and Audiobooks
Below are several options for accessing audio and ebooks. Each option offers a different collection of titles.
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With Sora, you can read or listen to eBooks and audiobooks from the state funded collection.
Use Sora on your ChromeBook, MacBook or PC to read eBooks in your browser and listen to audiobooks. This is also a great way to browse and check out titles that you can later access on a phone or tablet. Click here to access. Select "Public Schools of Brookline" and login using your psb username and password Directions/App |
Listen to or read audiobooks or ebooks on your computer or mobile device.
Log in to your BHS library account using your Google username and password. BHS eBook/Audiobook Collection Find the book you are looking for by using the search box. Click on title. If you want to listen to the book on your phone, you must download the Destiny Read app. You must first check out the book online using BHS eBook/Audiobook Collection. Click here for Destiny Read app. |
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Hoopla provides instant access — no wait times or hold lists — to a collection of downloadable audiobooks and ebooks, movies, music, and more.
Access with a Brookline or Boston public library card. Instructions for setting up an account Need a library card? Sign up here for a Brookline Public library card. Sign up here for a Boston Public library card You can access material via the hoopla website or through its Apple or Android app. |
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LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device.
They are read by volunteers from all over the world. |
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Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. |
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eBooks for Research |
Additional Resource for finding a book:
- Brookline Public Library
Access ebooks, audiobooks and graphic novels with library account. Don’t have a library card? Apply for a free eCard online. - Boston Public Library
Access ebooks, audiobooks and graphic novels with a library account. Don’t have a library card? Apply for a free eCard online. - Audible Stories
Free streaming of audiobooks. If you want to stop a story and come back to listen later, you must use the same device and browser – then you can pick up where you left off. No login necessary. - Open Culture
1,000 Free Audiobooks (mostly classics)