Audiobooks, Ebooks,

and Music Online

Here’s a handy resource guide to finding content online for

your eReader, MP3 player, or other Electronic Device.

For addition information,

visit the DeWitt Community Library website

at

www.dewlib.org

DCL Collection Guide

Downloadables

LIBRARY SERVICES

(available for free with a valid Library card)

Through online digital collections (available 24/7), the Library offers

e-content (including MP3 files and ebooks) for your e-readers,

computers, and mobile devices.

Overdrive Downloadable Catalog

http://onlib.lib.overdrive.com/

This catalog is a shared collection of e-books, e-audiobooks, and e-

music which can be used by patrons holding a library card from any

of the libraries in Onondaga County

FREE EBOOKS & DIGITAL AUDIO ONLINE

Podcasts, iTunes Store™

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

You can also access free content through the Itunes

Store™ in the form of podcasts. Podcasts can come in audio and

video format and can cover a variety of topics from News and Enter-

tainment to Travel or How-to. The Itunes Store™ compile the pod-

casts into a easily searchable catalog (although you can also get them

from the podcast’s producers website ) to find areas that might inter-

est you. In the Itunes Store there is also a section called ItunesU

which contains more than 350,000 free lectures, videos, films, and

other resources supplied by Colleges and Universities from around

the world. You can share in this content because it is freely available

to anyone through the Itunes Store.

Libravox (Digital Audiobooks)

http://librivox.org/

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from

the public domain. LibriVox volunteers read and record chapters of

books in the public domain (books no longer under copyright) and

make them available for free on the Internet.

Project Gutenberg (Ebooks)

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of

free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of

Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the

creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC,

Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Choose between

ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

Internet Archive (Ebooks, music, audiobooks, and a lot more)

http://www.archive.org/

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was found-

ed to build an Internet library. The Internet Archive includes

texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived

web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive

reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabil-

ities.

STREAMING MUSIC SITES

You don’t need to download your music anymore. Streaming music has

now become one of the most popular ways to listen to the music you like.

Here are some of the popular music streaming services:

Pandora (www.pandora.com)

Pandora is free, personalized radio that plays music you'll love.

Discover new music and enjoy old favorites. Start with your

favorite artist, song or composer and they will provide music

that you will like

Grooveshark (www.grooveshark.com) Grooveshark provides free music streaming, online radio sta-

tions, and lets you connect with artists and friends.

X-Box Music (www.xbox.com/music) With Windows 8, a Windows phone device, or an X-Box, you

can accees the whole collection of music in the X-Box Music

catalog streamed right to your device for free.

FREE MUSIC SITES

There’s also free music on the Internet produced by artists just

waiting to be discovered. Most of this music is covered by the cre-

ative commons license which allows you to listen, copy, share, or

burn the tracks to CD.

Jamendo

www.jamendo.com

Jamendo hosts over 7,000 albums for you to

download for free and then review or share.

SoundClick

www.soundclick.com

SoundClick, which has been live since 1997, has over 2 million

full-length tracks available; many for free download.

BeSonic

www.besonic.com

Once you register (free), you will then have access to over

12,000 songs to download or stream from your computer.

PureVolume

www.purevolume.com

A smart and user friendly site that contains music from more than

400,000 artists to listen to for free.

ArtistServer

www.artistserve.com

A social media website that hosts over 8000 free

and legal songs.This social media service also pro-

vides free MP3 ringtones, photos, blogs, and a

place to talk via its forums.

Audio Archive (part of the Internet Archive)

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