Social Distancing? Recommendations to pass the time

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Social distancing? Working from home? We've got a plethora of recommendations to help you pass the time–mostly for free!

ACCESS

Find out where you can stream a show/movie on JustWatch.com: Stream/Rent/Buy

Library Options (Apps)
Library card options

• eBooks: OverDrive (kids/teen sites, too), hoopla (COMICS! See below), RBdigital (some), Freading
• Comics: hoopla - (Dark Horse, DC, Marvel, Image, Titan, Fantagraphics, etc.) Witcher Omnibus, Lock & Key, Star Wars, Parable of the Sower (Butler), Saga, Star Trek, Walking Dead /// Kids: Big Nate, Minecraft, Garfield, Zelda, Percy Jackson, Avatar the Last Airbender
• eAudio: OverDrive, hoopla, RBdigital
• Streaming Video: OverDrive, hoopla (For the Love of Spock, Ex Machina, ST movies, Stargate SG-1 movies, Beyond a Year in Space [scott kelly doc],BBC), RBdigital (some offer Acorn), Kanopy (Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth, Dear Mr Watterson, includes Kids options & Criterion Collection titles)
• Magazines: Flipster, OverDrive, RBdigital
• Take advantage of some of the free public domain ebook sites:
• https://ebookfriendly.com/free-public-domain-books-sources/
• Set a couple of reading goals. Sitting home and wallowing in your quarantine isn’t productive. Read through a series, classic or otherwise.
• Get into some Jane Austen or look for some of the classic thrillers like Agatha Christie (not all of hers are in public domain, but several are)
• Tor.com has a ton of free novellas and short stories, so does Baen (a SF/F publisher)**

Other Free Options
imdbTV, Tubi [tubitv.com] (Minority Report, Relic, Donnie Darko, Memento), Crackle (Gattaca, Close Encounters, Crouching Tiger, Starship Troopers), Pluto

Get Your Nerd On!

• CrashCourse YouTube Channel
• Khan Academy
• NASA TV
• Great Courses (video & audio options) -- on OverDrive and hoopla for some libraries
• Universal Class and Lynda.com

READING RECS

• Start a book series!
  • Great time to 1st read/reread DUNE
  • Brandon Sanderson: Stormlight 1-3 in time for 4 in November: Rhythm of War
  • Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

VIEWING RECS
Find yourself some Bingeable TV/Film Series

Netflix

• The Office
• Parks & Rec
• Derry Girls
• Cheers
• New Girl
• The IT Crowd
• That 70s Show
• Star Trek
• The West Wing
• Gilmore Girls
• Supernatural
• Breaking Bad
• Longmire
• Person of Interest
• Broadchurch
• The Big Family Cooking Showdown
• Ugly Delicious
• Queer Eye

Hulu

• Top Chef
• Fargo
• Justified
• It’s Always Sunny

Disney+

• ALL THE MARVEL MOVIES
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Classic Disney Animation: DuckTales, Chip & Dale, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, Gummi Bears
• The Rescuers & Rescuers Down Under
• The Love Bug movies
• The Muppet Movie
• The Witch Mountain Movie
• X-Men The Animated Series
• Boy Meets World
• Gargoyles
• Gravity Falls
• Brain Games
• Shop Class
• Frozen 2
• The. Whole. Vault.

Prime

• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Hellier
• Grand Tour
• Newsroom
• Honey Boy
• Downton Abbey
• Good Omens
• Stargate SG-1 (the movie’s on Hulu)
• Jane Austen Miniseries
• The Boys
• The Man in the High Castle
• The Expanse
• Troop Zero (delightful, adorable, yes)

Fringe: all 5 seasons on imdbTV

Board Games

• Harry Potter Clue
• Ice Cool
• Operation Escape Room

Apps

• Super Mega Mini Party

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