Can I recommend the “Free Online Resources” tab of this thread?
You will find there such wonders as free graded readers (already mentioned by others), PIBO, Wasabi, NHK News Easy, Watanoc…
You can read a certain amount of the content on Satori Reader for free.
There is also the free EhonNavi collection and an associated club on the forums - it doesn’t have a fixed schedule, but you might find it motivational regardless, and can get help there.
I got started out with some random bilingual books, and then I read Flying Witch (pretty slowly) on my own, and then I joined the Beginner Book Club. If you find an eBook that we’ve read in the past available free from BookWalker or wherever, the vocabulary sheet and historic grammar discussions will still be invaluable.