At Deptford Lounge their very popular ‘Open Mic’ night is back with Sandra Agard – so if you have a favourite book or poem please come along and share it with others. Starting at 7pm. They will also be holding a book swap so if you have a book you have read & would like to swap it for one you haven't then do bring it along with you.
They may even have an extra book or two to take home with you.
Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, Deptford, London SE8 4RH
At Lewisham Library there is a focus on “Looking After Yourself”. Everyone needs time to self-reflect, self-care and to treat yourself, so we have invited a number of specialists to help us along the right tracks. Guests include: A vegetarian Lifestyle expert; a mindfulness coach; Mental Health workers and Physiotherapists. We will also be discussing the Lewisham Sugar Smart Pledge to help us all eat healthier.
Come along between 5-8pm for a bit of TLC !
Lewisham Library 199 201 Lewisham High Street SE13 6LG
Downham Library are collaborating with 1Life for a "Body Balance and Books yoga" session in the fitness studio on Monday evening!
This special 'wellbeing' World Book Night event encourages you to make time for yourself with yoga and a good book. There will be a gift of a book to all participants.
Downham Library 7-9 Moorside Road Bromley Br1 5ep
Free books too!
You can find Free eBooks and eAudiobooks in the following places
Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/texts
The Internet Archive has many out of Copyright books in its collections.
Hathi Trust
https://www.hathitrust.org/
The Hathi Trust has a good selection of mainly out of copyright academic books but there is a small selection of fiction.
Brent Digital Back Books
https://digitalbackbooks.com/
Digital Back Books has a good selection of eBooks from African authors.
Project Guttenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
A wide selection of out of copyright eBooks
National Library of Australia
https://trove.nla.gov.au/
A small selection of out of copyright Australian books from the National Library of Australia.
Digital Library of the Caribbeanhttp://dloc.com/
The Digital Library of the Caribbean has mostly historical eBooks but a small collection of fiction.
GoogleBooks
https://www.google.com/
Free out of copyright and Open Access books in the Google Collection. Use Tools-Any Books - Free eBooks to specify only full text eBooks.
Libre Vox
https://librivox.org/
Wide selection of out of copyright audiobooks, read by volunteers, narrator may change mid book and quality may vary.
Remember, you can always get free eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers and eReference Books from your library.
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