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ht:normal"><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;letter-spacing:0.2px">National Library of Medicine</span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">: Cool medical stuff from past and present. Some gross stuff, too.</span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px">A </span><a href="https://www.storylineonline.net/" style="letter-spacing:0.2px" target="_blank">collection of kids books</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px"> read by famous people. Cute for littles.</span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px">This is a large collection of </span><a href="https://openstax.org/" style="letter-spacing:0.2px" target="_blank">completely free textbooks</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px">. Might be helpful if you are wanting to eliminate physical textbooks or if we are not in school next year.</span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);letter-spacing:0.2px">Achieve 3000: </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,135)"><a href="https://remotesupport.achieve3000.com/at-home-digital/" target="_blank">This site</a></span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);letter-spacing:0.2px"> gives excellent articles for free differentiated literary instruction through grade 12. Really great stuff here.</span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);letter-spacing:0.2px">Learning Ally: </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);letter-spacing:0.2px">This </span><a href="https://www.distancelearningally.org/educators-resources" style="letter-spacing:0.2px" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,135)">audiobook site</span></a><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);letter-spacing:0.2px"> reads (by humans) 80,000 textbooks to students. Good for audio learners.</span></font></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px">Open Access: </span><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);text-align:center;text-decoration:underline;letter-spacing:-0.2px"><a href="https://guides.library.harvard.edu/covidoa" target="_blank">This list from Harvard</a></span><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);text-align:center;letter-spacing:-0.2px"> is a decent amount of free textual and art content. In March, when educators were heroes, we were getting everything we could imagine for free. Now that it’s August, and teachers are greedy union-monsters, the pickins’ are slim. However, this is pretty good, and some of the stuff contains full books.</span></font></span></li><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir-Book"><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);text-align:center;letter-spacing:-0.4px"><b>Sora: </b></span><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);letter-spacing:-0.2px;text-align:center;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://soraapp.com/welcome" target="_blank">Sora</a></span><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);letter-spacing:-0.2px;text-align:center"> is an app created by Overdrive, which is the largest e-book and audiobook company in the United States. Our school will be using this app, so if you want to download it now, go ahead. We will be purchasing ebooks to use here, but this coordinates with your (and students’) public library card, so they can read endless ebooks/audiobooks. <b>More information coming soon.</b></span></font></span></li></ul><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#414141" face="Avenir-Book"><span style="font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.2px"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#414141" face="Avenir-Book"><span style="font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.2px"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 2, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Christine Wilson via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">Project Gutenberg is a good source, but won't have current, hot titles:  <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org</a>/</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">Check with your public library though. Ours is offering a free e-card for all students, regardless of the district they live in. Also check your local community college. They have at least a section of children's books for their education and literature students.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 7:06 PM Michelle Fiorini via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Does anyone have additional resource websites where students can check out eBooks from without a Library card or paid subscription?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Michelle</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:51 PM Dan Bostrom via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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