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You can listen to these books on the Loyal Books website, download MP3s of the chapters altogether at once in one ZIP file, download the whole audiobook in one M4B file for iPhones and iPods, save specific chapters only, stream from your phone or tablet , and even get the book through an RSS reader.
These are public domain books, so you might not see anything here that differs from the other public domain audiobook websites we've already mentioned. If you are looking for free audiobooks for kids, then Storynory should be your first stop. The selection includes original stories, fairy tales, classic stories, educational books, and some small stories for the very little ones. You can download audiobooks here, stream them directly from the website, or subscribe through Apple Podcasts or another podcasting service.
There's also an app for iOS devices , but it's not free. Open Culture has one thousand fiction, non-fiction, and poetry audiobooks you can download for free. Just scroll down the alphabetized list to browse through everything they have to offer. These audiobook downloads are located on a variety of other websites, too, so some of them may be direct links to the MP3 while others might be streamed from its download page but not available for download.
Besides free audiobooks, Open Culture also has free online movies , courses, language lessons , and eBooks. Browse by the latest or the site's top-rated audiobooks to find one you might like, or look through the list of genres or authors. You can download the whole audiobook or just specific chapters, as well as listen to it in pieces right on the website. There are over , items at Digitalbook. Light Up Your Brain has several clearly read, short, free audiobooks that are just for kids.
Stream them or download the audiobooks to your computer. A transcription of the story is provided as well so that beginning readers can read along with the audio. There are also some free games for kids here that are all made to challenge their minds and keep their brains active. ThoughtAudio has classic works of literature and philosophy books available for download as free audiobooks. You can browse the whole list or search for books, as well as see them in order of those that were recently added to the collection.
To get these audiobooks, you have to either listen to them on the ThoughtAudio website or download them in installments by right-clicking each part that you want to save. PDF transcripts for these audiobooks are also available for download.
This free audiobook website specializes in classic and fiction audiobooks and you can view them by most popular, recently added, or by author's last name. To download hundreds of their audiobooks at once and support the site, you can purchase the short stories on a DVD. Much like OverDrive, detailed at the top of this list, hoopla has free audiobook downloads, but only if you have a library card at a supporting library. When searching through the tens of thousands of free audiobooks here, you can filter the results by user rating, release date, date added, and language.
There's also a children's-only toggle to show just kid-friendly audiobook downloads. Take a look at hoopla's most popular audiobooks , or dig through the trending audiobooks page , if you're not sure where to start.
There are also genres you can browse through. These audiobooks can be streamed from your computer or on various devices. Project Gutenberg has audiobooks that are human-read and some that are computer-generated.
These are public domain books that have been turned into audiobooks that are now available for free for anyone who's interested. There are several formats to download the book in, and you can save it to your computer or an online storage site like Dropbox. Scribl is a very different audiobook website because while there are some free audiobooks, most of them come at a cost.
It's really a hit-or-miss type of situation when you look for free audio eBooks here. However, we've included it here because you might find unique books that aren't free anywhere else. Just make sure to grab them quickly because as books get more popular, Scribl puts a price on them.
Because Scribl has other things, too, like eBooks and podcasts, you want to make sure to filter the results to only show audiobooks. All audiobooks automatically come with the eBook at no cost.
There are several ways to filter the results to show only the books you're interested in listening to. For example, maybe you're only interested in space-themed English books set in the late s that have a female main character.
Set those filters and see what shows up! There are mobile apps if you want to listen from your phone. There used to be a free audio book website at Podiobooks. Free audiobooks at Spotify? With a catch: it's only free to download the books if you're a paying user.
Spotify memberships allow for downloading content while free users can only stream the books. The free audiobooks at Spotify are not organized very well because Spotify is a music streaming service , not an audiobook website—but there is a good handful of them available.
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