National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard. NIMAS is a technical standard used by publishers to prepare “electronic files” that are used to convert instructional materials into accessible formats.
A single standard enables the creation and distribution of textbooks and other instructional materials in a flexible format e.g. digital text that allows students with disabilities to access the core curriculum through a variety of media e.g. text to speech large font
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts - A collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American English literature as well as western philosophy its purpose is to help facilitate a persons liberal arts education.
ALA Great Websites for Kids - Sponsored by the ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN, a division of the American Library Association, this is a curated list of websites assessed for age-appropriateness and placed in categories. This site is still available, but is not being maintained so may contain some dead links.
Bibliomania - has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories, and plays, all of which are absolutely free. You can read the worlds greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all of Shakespeare's plays, or Edgar Allan Poe.
Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Is is free for students in the United States, but you need to set up an account.
Learning Ally - previously known as "Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic," non-profit Learning Ally solutions help struggling readers through audiobooks and support services for educators, parents, and students dealing with dyslexia. Their audiobook library ranges from picture books to Shakespeare. Some are audio-only and others have a video component. Requires a membership to access audiobooks. The College Student Success Program is available free of charge but other memberships have an annual fee.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical, perceptual, or reading disability that prevents them from using regular print materials. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, that are instantly downloadable to a personal device or delivered by mail free of charge.
The Online Books Page is an online platform offered through the University of Pennsylvania. An index of over three million online books freely readable on the Internet. Over 50,000 of the books are manually curated while the remainder in the "extended" collection are imported in bulk from other sites.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free ebooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
