Where to Read (or Listen to) Books for Free Online
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Read (or Listen) for Free
IT’S the time of year to cozy up with a good book and warm fire. Whether you’re a voracious reader or just like to read the occasional yarn, you can save money with free e-books and audiobooks online. Here’s where to find them.
ManyBooks. This website includes more than 50,000 public domain titles and self-published works. (More-recent titles are available for as little as 99 cents.) | manybooks.net
Amazon. You can access free e-books here in the format for Amazon’s Kindle e-readers and apps. Go to Amazon.com and search for “free eBooks.”
Library apps. Many libraries offer free e-book and audiobook apps to card-carriers. You can check out even current bestsellers for free. Services include Libby and Hoopla.
LibriVox. More than 40,000 audiobooks of works in the public doman are available for free listening. | librivox.org
TuneIn. This app is known for streaming radio stations and podcasts, but it also offers a selection of free audiobooks (albeit with ads built in). | tunein.com—JD Sartain