The summer holidays are just around the corner, and maybe you're finding yourself low on reading materials....
What are you to do with all your spare time?
Today we are happy to show you where you can access free e-books, audio-books, comics, magazines and newspapers from your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile devices for free.
Croydon Library
Croydon library offers thousands of free e-books, audio-books, comics, magazines and newspapers to their members of the library. Not a member yet? No problem! It's super easy and free to sign up.
How to sign up
Step 1. Students need to get parent/guardians approval! You'll need their help to help you finish the signing up.
Step 2. Have a quick read through the different membership options, as they are some differences between children's, teens and adult memberships.
Step 3. Head to the joining page and select your local library (the closest to Oasis Arena is Ashburton).
Step 4. Fill in the form with your parent/guardian and then press 'Create Account.'
All done! You can now use your new membership number and the pin you set to access thousands of free books, e-books, audiobooks, comics, magazines and more!
- Free e-books and audio-books with Overdrive, BorrowBox, RbDigital, and uLIBRARY.
- Free comics, magazines, language courses and movie streaming with RbDigital.
- Free newspapers in many different languages with Pressreader.
All of these services have apps that you can download from your app/game store. After downloading, select Croydon or LCC as your library, and enter your library card or pin as requested.
Audible
For the duration of the school closures, Audible is giving free access to a range of audio-books.
Just head to their website and get listening!
Librivox
Listen to thousands of classics read to you by enthusiastic and talented volunteers with Librivox.
Exact Editions
For the next three months, our school has access to 10 amazing magazines, with titles like BBC Science Magazine, Geographical and The World Today.
To read, you'll need the schools special access code.
- Go to the Exact Editions website.
- Press 'Library Card' in the top right corner.
- Enter the code 987075 as the card number and press login.
GoComics
Do you like Big Nate, Garfield or Peanuts? You can read them for free on GoComics.
We hope this has been helpful to you. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with our school librarian Miss Le at: yen.le@oasisarena.org
Happy reading!