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No-cost eBooks and audiobooks available at Project Guttenberg

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Department of Veterans Affairs

Looking for a good book to read or listen to?

Project Guttenberg can help veterans who are staying home due to the coronavirus pandemic remain entertained with its catalog of more than 61,000 classic, free e-books and audiobooks, according to VAntage Point blog post


The titles can be read online or downloaded. The selection also includes an assortment of audiobooks and books available in a wide variety of languages, including Spanish.

The books are mainly older literary works with expired copyright. Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Jack London and Jane Austen are some of the celebrated authors. People can read about characters such as Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Peter Pan, Tiny Tim and Alice in Wonderland.

Project Gutenberg offers a list of the most popular books, latest books, a search feature and a random book selection. Users can also browse the digital bookshelves by categories, genre, age group or topic.

The bookshelves are broken into categories, ranging from animals to history to science.

The "Wars Bookshelf" contains books about the Revolutionary War, Boer War, English Civil War, Spanish-American War, U.S. Civil War, and both world wars. Selections from this shelf range from Marine landings in the Pacific during World War II to stories of Bull Run to audio versions of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech.

The children’s section offers up fairy tales, fictional works and more.

Project Gutenberg also needs help digitizing, proofreading and formatting, recording audiobooks and reporting errors. If you are interested in helping, you can find more information on the website. They can help produce e-books by proofreading just one page a day.

The website receives hundreds of thousands of downloads each day and several million each month.

Reach Julia LeDoux at Julia@connectingvets.com.

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