#stayingathome while reading! E-books and audiobooks for cultural isolation
It is possible that these days we could run out of ideas and have nothing more to do. We offer you some suggestions for online activities, which involve reading or listening to books. Relaxed activities, relaxation, are just a click away, only good to make us detach a little news.
A good initiative comes from the "Alexandru and Aristia Aman" County Library, which urges readers to stay together and read together. The little ones will listen to stories at Story Time, live on the library's Facebook account. Moreover, for those who have forthcoming exams, the entire bibliography for each exam will be digitized urgently and the books will be available on the institution's page. Book exhibitions are also moving online, and teachers will have at their disposal, on request, space and equipment for "distance learning". Digitized books and magazines from various scientific fields are also on the road, even for those who do not have a library card. Keep up to date with all the news on the Facebook page!
Carantina (Quarantine) was born out of the desire of the Bar Lovers association, who thought that we really need a place with correct information, not truncated, but also with tips and tutorials on what we could do at home during this period: culinary tips from nutritionists, links to online libraries, movie recommendations or interesting articles about things we didn’t know before.
Respiro is a platform for self-support and development, which you can confidently turn to if you feel lost or have questions that you cannot find answers to. Integrated in Respiro, Respiroteca offers online courses, as well as e-books that help you develop, most of them free. Respiro allows you to ask questions to the platform advisors, an initiative more than welcome in this period when we all feel different and strange.
International English literature for the ones who love it can be a great way to spend your days and evenings. Project Gutenberg offers these e-books for free, which can be also read directly online, from the browser. Moreover, for those of you who want to rest your eyes, you can rely on their audiobooks; they are read either by human voices (which are authentically recorded) or by computer-generated voices.
Free audiobooks can also be found on Librivox, which also has a very nice feature: if you know English and not only, and if you also have a radio voice, you can volunteer to read some material that will be then available on the site as an audiobook. The record archive also includes titles in Romanian, mostly stories or poems for children.
Also, on the websites of publishers, such as Nemira or Polirom, you have e-books available online, at affordable prices. These are available on their own websites.
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