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Class Notes: Hamilton County students have access to free audiobooks, and more education news

Julia Murphy, a freshman at East Hamilton School, uses the Audible audiobook app through a partnership between the audiobook distributor and Hamilton County Schools. Free Audible accounts and books are provided to thousands of students in the district's Missionary Ridge Learning Community. Photo courtesy of Hamilton County Schools. Contributed Photo/Times Free Press
Julia Murphy, a freshman at East Hamilton School, uses the Audible audiobook app through a partnership between the audiobook distributor and Hamilton County Schools. Free Audible accounts and books are provided to thousands of students in the district's Missionary Ridge Learning Community. Photo courtesy of Hamilton County Schools. Contributed Photo/Times Free Press Julia Murphy, a freshman at East Hamilton School, uses the Audible audiobook app through a partnership between the audiobook distributor and Hamilton County Schools. Free Audible accounts and books are provided to thousands of students in the district's Missionary Ridge Learning Community. Photo courtesy of Hamilton County Schools. Contributed Photo/Times Free Press

By Meghan Mangrum 4 min read

Hamilton County students have access to free audiobooks

Middle and high school students in Hamilton County now have free access to more than 80 books through a partnership with Audible, an audio and e-book distributor.

The Student Technology Program provides 18,000 students in grades 8-12 and their English Language Arts teachers with a free audible account.

Many of the free titles available provide captions for readers and a feature enabling readers to follow along with text as they listen to the audio. Students can click on words to see definitions, Wikipedia entries and access translations into more than 20 languages to help improve reading comprehension.

Students also have access to the Audible program outside of school and earn 12 free credits, which they can use to download 12 titles from the Audible catalog of more than 450,000 titles.