Books/Music/Movies
E-Book Central
Explore more than 300,000 e-books and audiobooks available for free at NYPL—from children's books to bestsellers. You can also find accessible e-book offerings, learn about downloading e-reader apps to your device, and more.
Read Books with the Library's E-Reader App
Download our e-reader app and browse 300,000+ free e-books from the Library.
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AudioBookCloud
Listen to audio books in many different categories, including fiction, nonfiction, and classics. These books are always available, never on hold, and do not need to be downloaded.OverDrive
Access movies, video, audiobooks, and e-books via this third-party app for use with a wide variety of e-readers including Kindle, portable devices, PCs, and Macs.
· App Store
· Google Play
Need help with OverDrive?Cloud Library
Explore e-books via this third-party app for use with Kindle, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android products, and Windows PCs.
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· Google Play
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Browse Online
The Library has a wide variety of newspapers and magazines to browse with your library card. Here’s a selection of popular resources.Flipster Digital Magazines
Get free access to more than 100 popular magazines, including Bon Appetit, Seventeen, Time, and English and Spanish editions of People.
· App Store
· Google Play
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BARD (Braille & Audio Reading Download)
If you have a visual impairment, physical print disability, or dyslexia, visit the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library to get free access to the BARD collection of e-audiobooks, e-audio magazines, and electronic braille.Bookshare
If you have a print disability, sign up for Bookshare, a service where books are read aloud by the synthetic voice of your computer or mobile device, while also displaying highlighted text.
TumbleBooks
Enjoy animated talking picture books, story books, puzzles, and games, or find audiobooks and books in other languages.TumbleBook Cloud
Explore videos and chapter books in categories that include e-books, read-alongs, graphic novels, and audiobooks suitable for middle and high school grades.TumbleBook Cloud Jr
Browse our collection of videos and chapter books that include read-alongs, graphic novels, and audio books suitable for elementary grades.Bookflix
Find classic fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods, as well as nonfiction e-books from Scholastic, suitable for PreK–3rd grade.
Digital Collections
Digital Collections provides free access to more than 800,000 digitized items from the holdings of The New York Public Library, with new items added every day.Digital Research Books
This new project collects digital versions of research books from many different sources into one convenient place to search.Google Books
The Library, in partnership with Google, has digitized more than 400,000 books from its historic collection.HathiTrust
A large-scale digital repository of content shared by more than 80 library partners, HathiTrust serves as both a secure and trusted repository of content.
Very Short Introductions
Browse the entire catalog of Oxford University Press's series. The books in this platform offer concise overviews to a range of academic subjects.University Press Scholarship Online
Find full text of more than 7,000 academic monographs from six leading university presses.Project Muse
Find full-text access to top quality book-length scholarship and peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.Sage
Search the full catalog of Sage Publishing's social science ebook platform.