Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More

San­ta left a new Kin­dle, iPad or oth­er media play­er under your tree. He did his job. Now we’ll do ours. We’ll tell you how to fill those devices with free intel­li­gent media — great books, movies, cours­es, and all of the rest. And if you did­n’t get a new gad­get, fear not. You can access all of these mate­ri­als on the good old fash­ioned com­put­er. Here we go:

Free eBooks: You have always want­ed to read the great works. And now is your chance. When you dive into our Free eBooks col­lec­tion you will find 375 great works by some clas­sic writ­ers (Dick­ens, Dos­to­evsky, Shake­speare and Tol­stoy) and con­tem­po­rary writ­ers (F. Scott Fitzger­ald, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asi­mov, and Kurt Von­negut). The col­lec­tion also gives you access to the 51-vol­ume Har­vard Clas­sics.

If you’re an iPad/iPhone user, the down­load process is super easy. Just click the “iPad/iPhone” links and you’re good to go. Kin­dle and Nook users will gen­er­al­ly want to click the “Kin­dle + Oth­er For­mats links” to down­load ebook files, but we’d sug­gest watch­ing these instruc­tion­al videos (Kin­dle â€“Nook) before­hand.

Free Audio Books: What bet­ter way to spend your free time than lis­ten­ing to some of the great­est books ever writ­ten? This page con­tains a vast num­ber of free audio books, includ­ing works by Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell and more recent writ­ers — Ita­lo Calvi­no, Vladimir Nabokov, Ray­mond Carv­er, etc. You can down­load these clas­sic books straight to your gagdets, then lis­ten as you go.

[Note: If you’re look­ing for a con­tem­po­rary book, you can down­load one free audio book from Audible.com. Find details on Audi­ble’s no-strings-attached deal here.]

Free Online Cours­es: This list brings togeth­er over 600 free online cours­es from lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties, includ­ing Stan­ford, Yale, MIT, UC Berke­ley, Oxford and beyond. These full-fledged cours­es range across all dis­ci­plines — his­to­ryphysicsphi­los­o­phypsy­chol­o­gy and beyond. Most all of these cours­es are avail­able in audio, and rough­ly 75% are avail­able in video. You can’t receive cred­its or cer­tifi­cates for these cours­es (click here for cours­es that do offer cer­tifi­cates. But the amount of per­son­al enrich­ment you will derive is immea­sur­able.

Free Movies: With a click of a mouse, or a tap of your touch screen, you will have access to 500 great movies. The col­lec­tion hosts many clas­sics, west­erns, indies, doc­u­men­taries, silent films and film noir favorites. It fea­tures work by some of our great direc­tors (Alfred Hitch­cock, Orson Welles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stan­ley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch) and per­for­mances by cin­e­ma leg­ends: John Wayne, Jack Nichol­son, Audrey Hep­burn, Char­lie Chap­lin, and beyond. On this one page, you will find thou­sands of hours of cin­e­ma bliss.

Free Lan­guage Lessons: Per­haps learn­ing a new lan­guage is high on your list of 2013 New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. Well, here is a great way to do it. Take your pick of 40 lan­guages, includ­ing Span­ish, French, Ital­ian, Man­darin, Eng­lish, Russ­ian, Dutch, even Finnish, Yid­dish and Esperan­to. These lessons are all free and ready to down­load.

Free Text­books: And one last item for the life­long learn­ers among you. We have scoured the web and pulled togeth­er a list of 150 Free Text­books. It’s a great resource par­tic­u­lar­ly if you’re look­ing to learn math, com­put­er sci­ence or physics on your own. There might be a dia­mond in the rough here for you.

Thank San­ta, maybe thank us, and enjoy that new device.…


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  • free ibooks says:

    Thanks for the col­lec­tion of resources. It’s amaz­ing how much free stuff can be found online if you know where to look.

  • I own a Kin­dle touch and so far is awe­some. Thank you for the list. I’m always look­inf for new books and stuff.

    If you allow me I’d like to share a site I found to be real­ly use­ful, it noti­fies you every­time there’s a free span­ish kin­dle book avail­able: http://kindleton.com/

    Hope it helps!

  • duncan faber says:

    Twirly­Girl The­atre is a great site for chil­dren’s audio­books because all the sto­ries are orig­i­nal and free to down­load. Here’s a link if any­one is inter­est­ed.

    http://www.twirlygirlshop.com/short-stories-for-kids

  • Cau says:

    Thanks a lot for all this info!! :-D
    I have the plainest Kin­dle and I utter­ly love it :-D
    Btw, thanks for the tip on kindleton.com! I do love read­ing in Eng­lish but some­times I need stuff in Span­ish ‑my native lan­guage.

  • sonia says:

    Thank you so much. I per­son­al­ly read eBooks a lot, espe­cial­ly those easy&fast nov­els of dif­fer­ent genres(romance, sus­pense, etc.)
    I would rec­om­mend this list for you, you can check one or two sites every day to find the top free­bies.
    http://www.epubor.com/60-sites-to-download-free-kindle-books.html
    I am able to find good books in a short while now.

    I will try your oth­er sug­ges­tions as well. Thank you.

  • kavonte says:

    how to down­load free movie with­out
    regerst­ing

  • Bob Dunford says:

    about 1950 start­ing learn­ing biol­o­gy ‚course was called farm and forest­nin farm you were taught all about farm animales/ blood,cells right through ‚in for­est bud­ding graft­ing, cells of plants,how every thing works deas­es ‚feeds,cuttings ‚micro growing,now is it pos­si­ble to have this on my com­put­er or kin­dle to refer to .as i amnow retired i would love to take thisup again,without going to school,

  • Celestin Bushiri says:

    Text book for cin­e­matog­ra­phy

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