It’s World Book Night on Thursday (23rd April). We’ve a few ways you can get involved.
Reading Hour from 7pm
Join in with the #ReadingHour from 7pm.
Read anything you like. Tell us what you’re going to read on our Twitter and Facebook feeds on Wednesday at 4pm.
If you’re feeling photogenic in your lounge wear, pop up a reading snap after 7pm on Thursday night.
Free book downloads
A Free World Book Night audiobook is being sent to everyone who contacts the World Book Night team by midnight on April 22nd. Find out how.
Falkirk Libraries digital collection has eBooks and audiobooks for free download with our easy apps. That include:
- RB Digital ebooks, audiobooks and magazines
- ULibrary audiobooks
- Full details and ‘how-tos’ at our library catalogue
Project Gutenberg has 60,000 free eBooks, mainly classics, for immediate free access.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/
BBC Sounds has a bunch of free audiobooks (as well as podcasts and music and comedy and all sorts).
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Careful, you might get lost in there!
The National Emergency Library is part of the Internet Archive and has classic novels and hard-to-get academic textbooks
Authors without borders features new historical tales of heroism and resilience.
Be read to by a celeb
Have someone read to you (or your kids) for a change. See our blog posts about our favourite celeb reading videos:
Enjoy a World Book Night bedtime story and some family-friendly book chat
The National Shelf Service is a YouTube channel entirely devoted to recommending books! It’s run by UK Librarians and our professional body, CILIP.
There’s a whole day of special programming lined up for #WorldBookDay, including a bedtime story by the wonderful Joseph Coelho at 7pm. Why not send the kids to dreamland with that and then settle down for your own #ReadingHour?
We’re big fans of Joe. Here he is at Bonnybridge Library last year.
Enjoy a Colour in
Falkirk’s very own Jim Barker has created a special World Book Night colour in for the little (and not so little) Bairns out there
