Free eTextbooks for Back to School

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Get ready for school with FREE eTextbooks from Bookshare

From kindergarten to college, Bookshare has the books students with print disabilities need for school. Our online library has over 450,000 titles including textbooks, Common Core materials, educational titles, bestsellers, children’s books, and more.

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Bookshare books are accessible to students with print disabilities. Members can:

  • Listen to books read aloud
  • Follow along with highlighted text
  • Read with enlarged fonts
  • Read in braille
  • Read on computers, Chromebooks, smartphones, tablets, assistive technologies and other devices.

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Bookshare is free for qualified US students and schools. To join Bookshare, members must have a qualifying disability that prevents them from reading printed text. Learn more about Bookshare qualifications and sign up today!

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Bookshare is an initiative of a technology nonprofit called Benetech and is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), US Department of Education. 

Start the school year on the right foot with our back-to-school guides!