Here are some resources:Timberland Regional Library. You can check out e-books and digital audiobooks and even stream movies. If you don't have a library card, you can get one here.
Support a local independent bookstore! We are lucky to have two great bookstores in Olympia, Browsers Bookshop and Orca Books. You can order books directly from their websites and they will mail them to you. It is important that we support our independent bookstores during the pandemic. If they are forced to close, they might never be able to re-open. Please support our local bookstores if you can!
Download books legally for free: Project Gutenberg has over 60,000 books available to download. These are all books which are old enough to be in the public domain, which means their copyrights have expired. Here are just some of the offerings available:
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
White Fang, by Jack London
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
and many, many more!
You can download every Sherlock Holmes story here.
You can download Cory Doctorow's YA science fiction novel Little Brother here.
The Open Library is also a terrific source for checking out books. You can browse its virtual shelves here.
I will update this as I find new stuff available for you to read. Enjoy and happy reading!
