eBooks & eAudiobooks
Braille Bibles for the Blind
Braille Bibles International provides Braille Bibles to people with visual impairments worldwide. They provide materials for all ages and in multiple languages. They provide the Braille Bible in both the King James and New King James Versions. They also provide a Bible Concordance, a Bible Dictionary, and the Greek New Testament.
International Children's Digital Library Foundation
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community—exhibiting tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas—by making the best in children's literature available online, free of charge.
JBI International
JBI International is a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the Jewish and general cultural needs of the visually impaired, blind, physically handicapped and reading disabled - of all ages and backgrounds - worldwide.
Maryland Digital eLibrary Consortium
Many Maryland public libraries offer free access to eBooks and eAudiobooks through the Maryland Digital eLibrary Consortium. Using the free OverDrive and Libby apps and a library card, library patrons can access books on their smart devices.
Learn Out Loud
Over the years, Learn Out Loud has curated a Catalog of over 50,000 of the best audiobooks, podcasts, free downloads, and videos individuals can learn from. One of the most popular sections of their site is their Free Audio & Video Directory, which features over 10,000 free audiobooks, courses, documentaries, lectures, interviews, speeches, and more.
Learning Ally
Today, students with learning differences have increased rates of depression, "at-risk" behaviors, a higher likelihood of dropping out, and, ultimately, higher poverty rates. Without the right support, many of these students will needlessly struggle in school and will be poorly positioned for future success. Learning Ally seeks to break this cycle of failure. We enable schools to support their struggling readers and build a strong foundation for independent, engaged learners who are empowered to achieve socially, emotionally, and academically, regardless of their learning differences.
Libri Vox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of public-domain books, and we release the audio files online for free. Because the books LibriVox records are in the public domain, readers and listeners should be aware that many are very old and may contain language or ideas that are antiquated at best and offensive at worst.
Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and the word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also include a related reading strategy. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
National Federation of the Blind, Jacobus tenBroek Library (Baltimore)
The Jacobus tenBroek Library is located at the National Federation of the Blind national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. We provide access to our collections, regardless of format, for both sighted and blind readers, and we welcome researchers interested in non-medical aspects of blindness. We also welcome walk-in readers, but to maximize your visit to the library, we urge you to schedule an appointment or review our reading room policies for researchers.
Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has provided them with large volumes of high-quality audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Their mission is to centralize and curate this content and give individuals access to it whenever and wherever they want.
Project Gutenberg
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 a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks for enjoyment and education.
