eBooks & Audiobooks

The slides below explain how to add public library collections to your Sora account to greatly increase your access to eBooks and audiobooks. The instructions will cover adding the Newton Free Library, part of the Minuteman Library Network. The last slide includes the names of all the other networks you can also add. 

• Click on the menu icon at the top right in the Sora app, then scroll down to select General Settings.

• Under Device, I read books, click on "in Sora"
• Instead of "in Sora", select on my Kindle (U.S. only)

Small collection of fiction and non-fiction titles. After login, you will be able to read title immediately in browser.

In the site box, start typing Newton and select Newton South High School from the drop down list, then username is NewtonSouthLibrary and our library password.

sample titles:
My Antonia by Will Cather
If You Really Love Me by Anne Schaft
Asthma by Wendy Murphy
Discovering Atoms by Margaret Campbell
Latinos Today by Thomas Arkham
Story of Facebook by Sara Gilbert

  From NSHS Destiny Discover in a browser
1. In the upper right-hand corner, log in using your student ID and password.
2. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
3. Find a title with a Follett icon  e-book or  audiobook
(our current collection is small)

  From NSHS Destiny Discover on a phone
1. Choose your school

2.Log in using your student ID and password.
3. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
4. Find a title with a Follett icon  e-book or  audiobook
(our current collection is small)

Large collection of e-books in a wide range of subject areas.
Click on the Passwords tab at the left for remote login information.

Small collection of fiction and non-fiction titles. After login, you will be able to read title immediately in browser.

Find Newton South High School in the drop down list, then use the username and password from the Passwords tab at the left.

sample titles:

My Antonia by Will Cather
If You Really Love Me by Anne Schaft
Asthma by Wendy Murphy
Discovering Atoms by Margaret Campbell
Latinos Today by Thomas Arkham
Story of Facebook by Sara Gilbert

E-books in subject areas: Literature, History, Science, and Health.
Click on the Passwords tab at the left for remote login information.