Read & Listen Online

CloudLibrary

eBooks and eAudiobooks

CloudLibrary makes it easy to discover and enjoy digital content wherever you are. Browse thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks on your device. Explore digital shelves or filter by your favourite genres to find your next great read—all with just your library card.

Comics Plus

Digital Comic Books for all ages

With Comics Plus®, readers have unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, manga, and picture books. Read online or download to read offline through the website or download the LibraryPass app on your smart device.

No holds, wait lists, or monthly borrowing limits.

To access this resource, please search for "Simcoe Digital Library Service" and log in with your library card number and PIN. 

Lote4Kids

Children's Stories in Various Languages

Lote4Kids is a new database of digital books in World Languages, created for children to read books and learn language through storytelling.

PressReader

Digital Magazines and Newspapers

Choose from a great selection of games (new!) newspapers and magazines on business, tech, news, science, design, sports, travel and more. It's all yours.

On a laptop, please follow these steps:

1) Go to the Press Reader website.

2) Click the profile head image on the upper right corner.

3) A pop up box will appear, click on the blue "libraries or group" box on the left hand side.

4) Search Simcoe County Library Cooperative.

5) Sign in with your library card number and PIN.

6) Begin browsing!

On a tablet / smartphone, please follow these steps:

1) Download the Press Reader app.

2) Sign in at the bottom of the screen.

3) Use the "libraries or group" option.

4) Search Simcoe County Library Cooperative.

5) Tap on the Simcoe County Library Cooperative image.

6) Sign in with your library card number and PIN.

7) Begin browsing!

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star

Digital Newspapers

This database provides access to full page reproductions of the Toronto Star newspaper with retrospective coverage from 1894 – 2022. Search and discover articles, photographs, maps, advertisements, classified ads, political cartoons, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries, and more.

Storyline Online

Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.

Storyline Online is a program of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on gifts, grants and donations to fund Storyline Online and produce all of its videos.

Lot4Kids

Lote4Kids is a new database of digital books in World Languages, created for children to read books and learn language through storytelling.

Free Children's Stories

Provides best-selling short stories for kids of all ages.

Unite for Literacy

Free books that can read aloud to you and your child.