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Free Books Audiobooks TV Movies incl Hoopla OverDrive Kanopy Archive.org Pluto

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Mentioned this on the old board but it's so cool wanted to bring it back.

Through your US public library (don't know if it's international), there is a TON of free content available through various apps. You can access them on any platform -- phone, desktop, tablet. Once you have your local library card, you just go to the apps and you're good to go. Imagine each library is different, but these seem to be pretty common:

Kanopy is a dream, a huge number of movies and TV shows including Criterion Collection, PBS, and tons of classics. You can check out six titles per month.
Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top ...www.kanopy.com
Kanopy is the best video streaming service for quality, thoughtful entertainment. Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films ... Stream thousands of films for free, thanks to the generous support of your public library or university

OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, and videos for libraries and ...www.overdrive.com
Borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your library using your phone or tablet. It's easy to get started―all you need is a library card!
Note about OverDrive -- they have over 1,000 Magazines! From the Enquirer to New Yorker to Ancient History and way beyond. Had no idea and it's awesome to be able to read and be done with them. They also have a ton of audiobooks with sleep timer. Listening to Bram Stoker's Dracula read by Simon Vance, love his voice, he does hundreds of books including the Anne Rice books.

hoopla | streaming audiobooks, music, video & ebooks www.hoopladigital.com
hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and ..
Tons of audiobooks including current books and a sleep timer.

Archive.org's books to borrow library has 2,378,691 results. It's a great resource for out of print/hard to find titles.
https://archive.org/details/inlibrary

Movies 45,402 results
Watch full-length feature films, classic shorts, world culture documentaries, World War II propaganda, movie trailers, and films created in just ten hours: These options are all featured in this diverse library!

Nearly 13 million results in Audio: https://archive.org/details/audio
https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms

If you know of other free services (not just through libraries) please post them for all to enjoy. :dance:
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Re: Free Books Audiobooks TV Movies incl Hoopla OverDrive Kanopy Archive.org Pluto

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Now that CBS/Viacom owns PlutoTV, the vault is really opening and it's all free with no registration. In addition to TV, they've really opened up the movie content -- most of the James Bond films are there and we're watching a surprisingly good film, IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY. Of all people, Tom Selleck is Ike and he's excellent, the whole cast is terrific. There are hundreds of films.
IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY PG 2004, Drama/History, 1h 36m https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/ike-c ... y-2004-1-1
A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.
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TOMATOMETER
70% AUDIENCE SCORE
IMDB: It's very much a drama and a character study. The ensemble cast is uniformly superb, and none are better than Selleck, who turns in an unforgettable performance.
From ‘Happy Days’ to ‘The Hills,’ Pluto TV Opens the Vault of CBS Library Programming
As the ViacomCBS streaming strategy continues to shake out, Pluto TV finds strength in providing exclusive access to classic TV.
Kristen Lopez Jan 19, 2021 11:30 am

Pluto TV is the network for those who aren’t sure what they want to watch. On a given day you can watch a David Cronenberg movie, the entirety of MTV’s “The Hills,” or go back in time and watch the original run of “Unsolved Mysteries.” Since going live in 2013, Pluto TV has been the little engine that could. It contains the network model of scheduled programming and commercials, but couches it within the streaming world of uncensored offerings, channels dedicated to specific content, and on-demand titles. The best thing? It’s all free. Or, actually, that’s now the second-best element of Pluto TV. The network contains channels aimed at all manner of television fan, but what is now in the spotlight in the wake of the CBS and Viacom merger is how Pluto TV caters to classic television fans. Last year it unveiled an “One Day At a Time” channel, airing all the episodes of the original 1975 Norman Lear series. Last month it announced that it would become the home to reruns of CBS’ “Happy Days,” “Mork & Mindy,” and “Laverne & Shirley.” The latter two are particularly interesting considering that, like the original “One Day,” neither is currently available to stream anywhere else on the internet.

This is all thanks to Pluto TV’s business relationship with their corporate owners, the recently merged CBS and Viacom. Scott Reich, Pluto TV’s Senior Vice President of Programming, told IndieWire the desire to test the waters and not focus on what’s currently popular or well-known is the content strategy of Viacom CEO Bob Bakish. “Part of that is going into the vaults and seeing what’s in there,” Reich said. He said when it comes to programming and what to highlight, it’s a complicated answer with numerous moving parts that isn’t just limited to audience behavior. The service doesn’t look at their audience in terms of demographics. “We look more on behaviors,” Reich said. “What we see, across the platform, is the beauty of everything. People can cross decades of amazing television and it doesn’t really matter if it’s the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, or current day. If you’re starting on ‘The Love Boat’ or ‘Happy Days’ it’s easy to go in and catch things from the ’90s like ‘Moesha,’ or ‘Wings,’ or ‘The Nanny.'” In the case of Pluto’s new “Happy Days” channel it was an opportunity to highlight the shared universe created by Garry Marshall, who used the original 1974 series as a launchpad for both the 1976 sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and 1978’s “Mork & Mindy.”

Reich is enthusiastic about ViacomCBS’s ongoing relationship and support of Pluto, and believes there can be co-existence between Pluto and CBS’ paid streaming service, CBS All Access. “It’s very much a work-in-progress because Bob [Bakish] has been very clear about this is not a single winner-take-all scenario or marketplace,” Reich said. And there have been opportunities for cross-promotion on the free service, with Pluto TV devoting a channel to Stephen King movies in anticipation of the All Access adaptation of “The Stand.” Pluto also hires in conjunction with curation. Comedians are brought on to oversee the Comedy Channel; MMA experts control programming for Pluto’s MMA channel. “It’s great when you have people who have this amazing knowledge programming for the audience,” Reich said. This ability to reach out and connect (or change) the programming extends to Pluto’s thriving Facebook fan page and their social media presence, which actively works with podcasters and journalists to do synergistic events to promote the channel and its content.

For the future, Reich said talks are active about what CBS All Access’ upcoming rebranding to the subscription-based Paramount Plus — now scheduled to launch March 4 — might mean for them, but one thing he’s hopeful about is that the network will remain ad-supported and free for users. PlutoTV also remains devoted to being a service with a human face on it, one not driven by algorithms, but people. “This is a living, breathing place,” Reich said. “The beauty of our platform is we can make changes, we can try new things and if it doesn’t work we change it tomorrow.” He compares it to driving a speedboat as opposed to the traditional network being a cruise ship. “We can turn on a dime,” Reich said. This brings it all back to “Laverne & Shirley,” the sitcom that is now available for people to watch on Pluto. In a time where everything feels like it’s locked up behind a corporate paywall, it’s a network like Pluto TV, that shares content with audiences directly, that feels like a strong hybrid model between the traditional and progressive. Rewatching their channels, feeling that nostalgia, reminds you of the power of network television — with the added element of having it at instantly your fingertips.
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/pluto ... 234609266/

And, of course, for Neon and our game show fans, The Barker Years on The Price Is Right is 24/7 :P
Lt Root Beer of the Mighty 699th. Fogbow 💙s titular Mama June in Fogbow's Favourite Show™ Mama June: From Not To Hot! Fogbow's Theme Song™ Edith Massey's "I Got The Evidence!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5jDHZd0JAg
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