Many of us bloggers are also avid readers. As parents, however, we are often short of either time or money to maintain our habits. I was thrilled, therefore, to see Sassymonkey at BlogHer point out Best Places to Get Free Books: The Ultimate Guide (a link she in turn got from fellow BlogHer contributing editor and lesbian mom Denise).
An extensive guide it is, too, including audiobooks and podcasts, e-books, and Web sites that facilitate sharing of physical tomes. Handiest for the busy parent might be the audiobook and podcast sites, such as LibriVox (mostly classics) and Podiobooks (newer works, some still in progress), good for commuting or stroller time, or DailyLit, which sends you pieces of a book each day by e-mail or RSS (again, mostly classics). There are a few children’s books there, too, though I think the real value for kids might be in getting teens ones to read grown-up classics via the cool new tool of an RSS reader.
For your info…….our library “Bookyards” was listed on the site as one of the places to go for free books….. but we also have a list of over 550 free online libraries that are broken into categories at http://www.bookyards.com/categories.html?type=links&category_id=1522
This list will be updated with the next two week. We have an additional 300 libraries to add, and there is now a need to edit the links that are no longer functional.