Free audio books online
The New York Times provides a pretty good overview of volunteer-based and other projects posting free audiobooks online. Here’re the sites that are worth checking out next time you need to fill up on good reading for the daily commute.
| Site | Description |
| LibriVox | Members contribute the audio files to the site, most of the audio is done by contributors, so the quality varies, but the selection is quite decent. |
| TellTaleWeekly | The company sells the recordings, but there’s a list of free books as well. |
| The spoken Alexandria project | This is the books released for free by TellTaleWeekly. |
| Literal Systems | 51 books are available for free download, but the company emphasizes the professional quality of their recordings. |
| Audio books for free | For free you can download numerous titles in low bitrate (somewhat low quality, but hearable), for extra pay they will send you CDs or provide higher-quality downloads |
| Free Classic Audio Books | All downloadable either in MP3 format, or iPod’s M4B, which allows some convenient things, like skip to the next chapter, remember where you’re at in the book, and others. As the site name claims, these are mostly classic public domain books, so don’t look for NYT bestsellers. |
August 28th, 2006 at 8:01 am #hank
Hello. my 5-year-old,Anna, would like some stories to listen to on cd, for her cd player. We don’t have much money right now. We are struggling, and I will be having surgery on my right leg soon. If you could,please,send her something, we would really appreciate it. Thank you so much,and God bless!
Hank Christen
5603 66 Lane N. St.Petersburg,Florida 33709 U.S.A.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:18 am #standy
thank u for ur information abt free audio books.i really appriciate the Librivox
organization for helping visually impaired people.i registered and download some text files to participate on the volunteen program.they accepted my voice. offered so free audio books for kids.