Where can you find free books and audio-visual resources?
- Sep 14, 2023
- 2 min read
Hey, everyone! In today's post, I thought of sharing some resources which you can access for free for a few niches. I will leave links to all the sites mentioned right at the end of this post.
Books & Libraries:
There are tons of places on the internet where you can read eBooks for free. Some of my favourite places are:
1. Google Play Books: I have this app downloaded on my phone. You can read hundreds of books at no cost. Download the app, hit the search button and find books of your choice. However, not all books are free. Certain books, which are in the public domain, you can read for free. Others, you have to purchase. Some of the books which you can read for free are: most of Shakespeare's plays, all of Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, O. Henry's short story collections, George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, and so many other books and plays.
2. Project Gutenberg: This a digital library, which offers more than 70,000 eBooks. It focuses more on older books for which US copyright has expired. So you will surely find lots of classics on this site. You can find Pride and Prejudice, Aristotle's Poetics, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Homer's Odyssey, Dickens' David Copperfield, among thousands of other books.
3. Internet Archive: This is, perhaps, the best digital library of not only books, but also movies, music and the Wayback Machine. You just have to sign up for an archive.org account, find a book to borrow, and borrow it on a 1-hour loan or 14-day loan, whichever is available. Their book collections are great.
Freely Usable Visuals / Graphics:
1. Unsplash: Unsplash has more than 3 million free photos. Use them for your presentations, social media posts, or business. It's free and beautiful.
2. Pexels: Pexels, too, like Unsplash has free stock photos. But, on Pexels, you can find free videos as well!
3. Pixabay: Pixabay has over 4.1 million royalty-free images, videos, audio and other media.
Free Audio Media:
1. Pixabay: As mentioned before, you can find royalty-free music and audio.
2. Freesound: You can download audio from a huge library of sounds on this website. It has sounds like the ring of a bell, that you can use in your YouTube video.
Links to the sites mentioned above:
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