# Libraries with thousands of free ebooks and audiobooks
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* Internet Archive - Huge collection of public domain and user-uploaded audiobooks, ebooks, music (including very rare old recordings, I found stuff my BiL who has Alzheimers listened to in his youth. We are in the Caribbean on an island which back then had 8K population and I even found calypsos from there), videos and documents * Project Gutenberg -Thousands of public domain books, many with audio versions * Librivox - 21K audio books in the public domain, read by amateur readers * Open Culture - Curated list of free audiobooks and courses * Loyal Books - Large catalog of public domain audiobooks * Libby - You need a library card for this but it distinguishes itself by mostly having modern fiction, the others are more classic books. * Open Library - This is ebooks, not audio and like Libby has modern fiction, but because of legal things, you borrow the book.