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BookFlix
BookFlix

BookFlix is an early literacy resource that thematically pairs animated storybooks from Weston Woods with a related nonfiction ebook to build a love of reading, real-world knowledge, and early literacy skills for PreK-Grade 3 learners.

Entertainment, Online Learning, State Library

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Comics Plus - Library Edition
Comics Plus - Library Edition

With Comics Plus®, Kansas State Library card holders can have unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from a variety of library-friendly publishers.

Entertainment, Reader Experience, State Library, Apps

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Fantastic Fiction
Fantastic Fiction

A comprehensive reader’s advisory resources, containing bibliographies for over 30,000 authors and information on over 350,000 books.

Entertainment, Reader Experience

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HathiTrust
HathiTrust

A collection of millions of titles, many freely available in full-text, digitized from libraries around the world.

Entertainment

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Kanopy Films
Kanopy Films

Stream thoughtful entertainment to your preferred device with no fees and no commercials by partnering with public libraries and universities. Everyone from film scholars to casual viewers will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy. Log in with your library membership and enjoy our diverse catalog with new titles added every month.

Culture & Society, Entertainment, Apps

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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg

Reader Experience, Entertainment

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Storyline Online
Storyline Online

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes, and dozens more.

State Library, Entertainment

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Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy

Reader Experience, Entertainment

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Cloud Library
Cloud Library

Accessing Kansas State Library's digital collection has never been easier. Cloud Library makes it easy to discover the content you want to read. Whether on the web, a tablet, or your mobile device you can browse digital shelves curated shelves or filter by genres that interest you.

Entertainment, Reader Experience, State Library, Apps

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Enki Library
Enki Library

The enki Library is a shared open source eBook Network that allows California libraries to own and store eBooks for access by library patrons; to share access to more content than any individual library can purchase on its own; to add features and functionality lacking in current third-party vendor models; and to share access to unique local digitized content with other libraries within the Network.

Entertainment, Reader Experience, State Library

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Freading
Freading

Freading is an ebook platform used by libraries around the globe. Kansas State Library cardholders can browse and borrow from Freading’s vast selection of ebooks from leading publishers in every genre and in 29 languages.

Entertainment, Reader Experience, State Library

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Hoopla Digital
Hoopla Digital

hoopla is the digital service of Midwest Tape, a leading provider of entertainment media products and services: DVDs, CDs, audiobooks and shelf-ready solutions, to public libraries across North America for over a quarter of a century. Their purpose has always been to partner with libraries in delivering the best content to patrons in the most streamlined manner possible. Through the years, They've cultivated a growing passion for the evolving public library.

Entertainment, Reader Experience, Apps

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LibriVox
LibriVox

LibriVox - founded in 2005 - is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet. If you are not in the USA, please check your country's copyright law before downloading.

Entertainment, Reader Experience

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Read It!
Read It!

Entertainment

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TumbleBooks - Library
TumbleBooks - Library
TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you. The language drop-down menu allows you to view the site in French and Spanish, instead of English.

Entertainment, State Library

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