eBooks, Movies, and More

(formerly Overdrive) EPUB, PDF, and Kindle eBooks and eComicbooks, digital audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos.

Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Libby and place up to seven requests per month. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.

Access: Any PPLC Cardholder

(formerly Overdrive) With Libby, you can checkout, EPUB, PDF, and Kindle eBooks and eComicbooks, digital audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos.

Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Libby and place up to seven requests per month. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.

Access: Any PPLC Cardholder

Hoopla provides online and mobile access to thousands of eBooks and eComicbooks as well as digital audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos.

Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Hoopla. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.

Access: Clearwater Card Only

Kanopy is an on-demand, film-streaming service. Clearwater library card holders may view up to 10 films a month from any computer, television, or mobile device.

Kanopy users get 30 tickets per month to stream various films. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.

Access: Clearwater Card Only

Explore more than 11 million songs from 80 countries, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists, with Freegal Music. Clearwater library card holders may download up to five songs a week.

Access: Clearwater Card Only

Click below to access the online editions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the archives of the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times, and historical newspaper collections.

Click below to access online databases on the topics of Business, Careers, Cooking, Downloads and Streaming, En Español, Fact-Checking, Finance, Genealogy and History, Homework Help and Test Prep, Language Learning, Health and Wellness, Newspapers, Reading and Literature, Research, and Tweens and Teens.

Explore PPLC's Pinellas Memory project, do some genealogy research, and view our special collections.

eBooks, Audiobooks, and Publications

• Baen eBooks - Free online science fiction and fantasy books.
• Banned Book Club - Free banned/challenged ebooks in your area from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) - University of Michigan.
• Florida Memory - The State Library and Archives of Florida.
• Free eBooks – Google.
• Free Nook eBooks - Barnes and Noble.
• Internet Archive - Free ebooks, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• LibriVox - Free public domain audiobooks.
• Open Library - An open, editable library catalog, including free ebooks.
• Pinellas Memory - The online archives of PPLC-member libraries.
• Project Gutenberg - Free public domain ebooks.
• Wayback Machine - More than 778 billion web pages saved over time.

Music and Audio Recordings

• Florida Memory - State Library and Archives of Florida audio recordings.
• Internet Archive - Free ebooks, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Library of Congress - Online audio recordings archive.
• LibriVox - Free public domain audiobooks.
• National Jukebox - Library of Congress online music recordings archive.

Movies, Television, and Other Video

• British Pathé - Newsreel archive.
• Florida Memory - State Library and Archives of Florida video archive.
• Library of Congress - Online video and film archive.
• Open Culture - Free film classics, indies, noir, westerns, documentaries, and more.

• PPLC Library App: The mobile library catalog of the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative.
• Clearwater Connect: The City of Clearwater's issue reporting app.
• The Palace Project: Free app for accessing and reading ebooks.
• ParkMobile: The City of Clearwater's parking app.