Santa left a new Kindle [1] , iPad [2] , Kindle Fire [3]  or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we’ll do ours. We’ll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media â€" great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn’t get a new gadget, fear not. You can acc ess all of these materials on the good old fashioned computer. Here we go:
Free eBooks [4] : You have always wanted to read the great works. And now is your chance. When you dive into our Free eBooks [5]  collection you will find 700 great works by some classic writers (Dickens, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and Tolstoy) and contemporary writers (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut). The collection also gives you access to the 51-volume Harvard Classics [6] .
If you’re an iPad/iPhone user, the download process is super easy. Just click the “iPad/iPhone†links and you’re good to go. Kindle and Nook users will generally want to click the “Kindle + Other Formats links†to download ebook files, but we’d suggest watching these instructional videos (Kindle [7]  â€" Nook [8] ) beforehand.
Free Audio Books [9] : What better way to spend your free time than listening to some of the greatest books ever written? This page contains a vast number of free audio books [10]  â€" 630 works in total â€" including texts by Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell and more recent writers â€" Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Carver, etc. You can download these classic books straight to your gadgets, then listen as you go.
[Note: If you’re looking for a contemporary book, you can download one free audio book from Audible.com. Find details on Audible’s no-strings-attached deal here [11] .]
Free Online Courses [12] : This list brings together over 1100 free online courses from leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford and beyond. These full-fledged courses range across all disciplines â€" history [13] , physics [14] , philosophy [15] , psychology [16] , business [17] , and beyond. Most all of these courses are available in audio, and roughly 75% are available in video. You can’t receive credits or certificates for these courses (click here for courses that do offer certificates [18] ). But the amount of personal enrichment you will derive is immeasurable.
Free Movies [19] : With a click of a mouse, or a tap of your touch screen, you will have access to 700 great movies. The collection hosts many classics, westerns, indies, documentaries, silent films and film noir [20]  favorites. It features work by some of our great directors (Alfred Hitchcock [21] , Orson Welles, Andrei Tarkovsky [22] , Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch) and performances by cinema legends: John Wayne [23] , Jack Nicholson, Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin [24] , and beyond. On this one page, you will find thousands of hours of cinema bliss.
Free Language Lessons [25] : Perhaps learning a new language is high on your list of New Year’s resolutions. Well, here is a great way to do it. Take your pick of 46 languages, including Spanish [26] , French [27] , Italian [28] , Mandarin [29] , English [30] , Russian [31 ] , Dutch, even Finnish, Yiddish and Esperanto. These lessons are all free and ready to download.
Free Textbooks [32] : And one last item for the lifelong learners among you. We have scoured the web and pulled together a list of 200 Free Textbooks [33] . It’s a great resource particularly if you’re looking to learn math, computer science or physics on your own. There might be a diamond in the rough here for you.
Thank Santa, maybe thank us, and enjoy that new device….
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