Free Stuff

The Library of Congress National Library Service lends free audiobooks, braille, magazines, and a talking-book player by free mail to people with low vision, blindness, or physical or reading disabilities.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails a free book each month to children from birth to age five where a local program exists, and grandparents can help by sharing the link with parents.

Five long-running freebie directory sites, including Free Stuff Times and The Freebie Guy, plus how to tell real free samples from traps that want your card or endless surveys.

P&G Good Everyday is now P&G brandSAVER, a free Procter & Gamble rewards program where you earn points for receipts and surveys, get seasonal rebates, and redeem rewards.

Open Library, run by the nonprofit Internet Archive, lets you read free public domain books and borrow many newer ebooks with a free account and no library card.

LibriVox offers free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers, with no account or library card needed to listen, and anyone can volunteer to read.

Project Gutenberg offers free classic ebooks you can read online or download to a phone, tablet, or Kindle, with no sign-up, no fees, and no library card.

Freegal Music lets cardholders at participating libraries download a few free DRM-free MP3 songs each week to keep, and at many libraries stream music ad-free.

Kanopy is a commercial-free streaming service for films, documentaries, and lecture courses that you can watch free with a participating library card, using monthly tickets set by your library.

Hoopla lets you borrow ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV, and music free with a participating library card, often instantly, within a monthly limit set by your library.