eBooks/eMags, Audio, Video
Downloadable and streaming
Free with your library card
Access ebooks, digital magazines, audiobooks, and streaming video, all free with your library card. You’ll find unique titles and features in each of the apps below. Questions? Library staff members are happy to help any time.
eBooks, eMagazines, and Audiobooks
Free to Brooks Memorial Library cardholders
available as a mobile app and on a computer
Works on
smart phones, tablets, and computers
Features
Audio only
Blackstone is a high-quality audiobook producer with more than 6000 titles for all ages.
No waiting lists!
“Our unlimited plan is similar to Netflix, but instead of movies, it’s audiobooks, and instead of monthly fees, it’s free from your library.”
Tips for setting up Blackstone Unlimited
Type ‘Brooks’ in the library line, and it will find us.
When prompted for your library card and password, use the same password/PIN that you use for your Brooks Memorial Library account, usually the last four digits of your phone number.
Complete your sign-up by entering your email address and making up a password.
Free to Brooks cardholders via the Green Mountain Library Consortium and Brooks Memorial Library
Libby, by Overdrive
Check out titles directly on the Libby app, OR through the Brooks Memorial Library catalog.
Works on
smart phones, tablets, computers, and Kindles
Features
The library’s e-magazine collection is on Libby.
Libby is also linked to several video services–Kanopy, The Great Courses, and Qello–which are described in more detail on this page.
Tips for setting up Libby
Select Yes when asked if you have a library card.
Search for Brooks Memorial Library and choose the Green Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC)
When prompted for your library card and password, use the same password/PIN that you use for your Brooks Memorial Library account, usually the last four digits of your phone number.
Free to all Vermont library cardholders from the VT Department of Libraries, with additional content for local cardholders via the Brooks Memorial Library
The Palace Project
Check out titles directly on the Palace app (currently, Palace titles are not included in the library’s general catalog).
Works on
smart phones and tablets (not on computers or Kindles)
Features
Palace also includes all of the e-book/audio content on Libby and Blackstone Unlimited, so if you like the Palace app, it’s a convenient single stop.
The project developed to give libraries more control over their content, and we expect it to keep getting better.
Tips for setting up Palace
Tap Settings > Libraries and search for Brooks Memorial.
When prompted for your library card and password, use the same password/PIN that you use for your Brooks Memorial Library account, usually the last four digits of your phone number.
Looking for an ebook or audio that you can’t find in our apps?
You can use the suggest/request a title form to request a purchase.
Let us know your preferred format: ebook or audio. We’ll buy it if we can.
Streaming Video: Movies, Lectures, and Concerts
Kanopy
U.S. and world cinema, selections from the Criterion Collection, award-winning documentaries, and more. Also includes Kanopy Kids for favorites to watch again and again.
Brooks cardholders can access Kanopy two ways:
- Go directly to Kanopy and create an account (let us know if you need help with your library card number and PIN), or
- Access through Libby on a mobile or computer.
The Great Courses Library Collection
Engaging college-level lectures. Experience the pure joy of learning from scholars who love their subjects.
Access through Libby on a mobile or computer.
Stingray Qello
Full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to your device.
Access through Libby on a mobile or computer.
If you have questions or would like personal assistance getting started, contact us. We’re happy to help!
Free Online Audiobooks, eBooks, and Video
Here are a few of the great resources available at no cost on the Web, beginning in our own community.
Brattleboro Community TV
Brattleboro’s award-winning BCTV offers local news, entertainment, and education, including an archive of many Library-sponsored programs. BCTV covers live meetings of the Brattleboro Selectboard and town committees. Check out the great variety, and connect with your community.
Vermont Humanities Video Archive
Access a selected, ever-expanding archive of events sponsored the Vermont Humanities Council in partnership with Vermont public libraries. If you missed a program, you might find it here–and you might find welcome surprises from other venues all over Vermont.
