Good source for audio books?
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Good source for audio books?
Looking for a good source for, preferably free , audio books. MP3 format would be preferred as the player is a Sansa device and that seems to be the easiest to deal w/. I did find a site called booksshouldbefree.com but it is a little unclear to me whether or not those are complete books, it looks like they are though. Has anyone dealt w/ this site before? What is the quality of the books?
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http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/
Mostly classics and the like and you have to pay a little bit extra for higher quality mp3s but the lower quality stuff is indeed free.
Mostly classics and the like and you have to pay a little bit extra for higher quality mp3s but the lower quality stuff is indeed free.
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I've been using audilbe for a couple years now. $15 a month for 1 book seems reasonable and they frequently have sales with even cheaper prices. It's a great way to get through more books, both during my commute and while I'm at the gym.
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I love The Classic Tales Podcast, narrated by B.J. Harrison. He does dramatic readings of classic works in the public domain, posted every Friday. His voice work is pretty good, especially his "Jeeves and Wooster" readings. Each episode is free for a few weeks, and if you don't download them during that window, you'll have to pay to download them. I just subscribed in iTunes and keep up with it that way. You can download .mp3s directly from the website.
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Many local libraries also now have access to places where patrons can "check out" audio books online. I live in a rural area and our library has the service. It was wonderful when I was sick for a week and half with swine flu last year because I could just check out and d/l audio books without infecting others.
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Audible also offers a "light" membership for $10 a year that accrues no book credits but, again, allows access to the periodic sale offers. I've scooped up enough $5 audio books that I have about two year's worth at my currrent listening pace. For example, I managed to get the award-winning 45 hour John Lee narrated version of The Count of Monte Cristo for $5 awhile back. To say it was worth my 5 bucks would be putting it mildly. While there is no guarantee that good sales will continue, I think it is worth my $10 a year to find out. (The current sale offer is 300 book titles at $6, $9, and $13.)
While I have often borrowed books on CD from my library, it takes time to rip them and practice to annotate them correctly so that they play in perfect order on my Sansa MP3 player (accepting default annotations from the internet is an exercise in frustration, don't go there). In my experience, every audible.com audio book has played perfectly every time with no fuss. And the user reviews on the site are helpful. (FWIW, one retains access to books purchased from audible.com even after canceling membership.)
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There are a lot of good source to get audio books. A lot of them. If you want to know where to buy audio books online, just visit legacy-audiobooks.com You may have a hard time looking at the price. Well, I do hope you can still buy it in the future and visit the website again.
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Audible is an Amazon company which has more than one and a half lac audiobooks which can be bought, owned, rented or streamed. Then there is Downpour which boasts of completely DRM-free audiobooks, which you can buy as well as rent. Hoopla Digital is another good source with music and TV shows also available, in addition to audiobooks.