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10 Sites To Download Free Audio Books


If you're looking for a place to download some free audio books, you're in luck. Whether you want to get inspired, scared by a mystery, or simply have something to listen to on a long drive, there are loads of places to find free audio books. They may not be on the New York Times Bestseller list but that doesn't mean they're not worth your time.


For example, Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' is not quite selling like the 'Shades of Gray' but it's an important read. In any case, these sites all host free audio books that are worth checking out!


NOTE: These are all legal sites that host public domain books. There's more than enough great stuff in these libraries so check them each out when you have the time!


Free Classic Audio Books


This site hosts a myriad of books that are all in mp3 or m4b format. You can find what you're looking for by sorting by the author's last name. The advantage of using the iPod format (m4b) is that it remembers where you stop in a file.


Project Gutenberg


Another source for the classics. Read timeless tales from Dickens, Poe, and more with Project Gutenberg's massive inventory. Boasting more than 2,000 free audiobooks in basically all categories, this should be one of your bookmarked sites!


Books Should Be Free


Like the aforementioned 'Art of War,' many all-time bestsellers are available on Books Should Be Free. They're from the public domain and you can find what you're looking for through some handy sorting tools. Want a children's book? How about just seeing the adult book results? Yep, you can do that.


Librophile


When you first go to this site, you're shown the price of every book. That price is $0.00, possibly the best price ever. Librophile has a substantial library of audio books as well as e-books that you can search by keyword, language, price (free), and more.


Lit2Go


Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.


LibriVox


LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.


LearnOutLoud Free Audio


LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 5000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online. Enjoy!


Podiobooks


The term podiobook was coined by Evo Terra in April 2005 to describe serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Podiobooks is supported by donations (if you use it, you should think about giving!) and boasts a solid set of sorting tools. You can browse popular books, award-winning books, all titles, etc. Lots of great novels in here!


Storynory


Beautifully read audio stories for children and adults. Listen online or via podcast or app. Fairytales, myths, legends and stories from around the world.


AudioCloset


The audiobooks are absolutely free. They have a solid set of books that are worth reading such as Kipling and Dickens. All audiobooks have been recorded especially for the AudioCloset website.


Audiobooks kept me going before satellite radio and certainly still have their place for me. I definitely recommend it.


Additionally, not everyone has the easiest time with reading (this post originally comes from Dyslexic Kids), so let your friends know and be awesome.

 

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I am one of those those hates to read, if it interests me I will read it, but you put some theology BS in front of me and you can kiss my ***. Six months ago I signed up for Audible and I love it. I have never really liked to read but I dont mind listening to the audiobooks. I just got finished with Hunger Games, if I was to read that book physically a book of that size would probably take me 3 years to read, but with Audible I couldnt stop listening, I was into it. I think it is very important that all truckers try to listen to audiobooks. There is a lot of material out there to learn from. As Kevin Rutherford says truckers should be some of the most intelligent people out there.

 

If youre looking to educate yourself and do it for free, there is no better site than https://www.khanacademy.org/.

 

If you are into world history check Dan Carlin's Hardcore History site.

Here's the archive available http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=hharchive

or podcast alley has up to show 35

http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=37704

I'm only missing shows 1 through 7, if anyone has them please pm me.

 

Just be careful with your "free" education; it may end up being overpriced if it teaches you something incorrect.

It's easy to verify things in the "hard" sciences (math, engineering, programming); things there should be well documented on the 'net. Language and history courses are similarly simple to verify.

Be careful when you are in "social" courses. Philosophy, psychology, economics, and the like are widely subject to interpretation. If you are taking a psychology course, does it teach multiple theories? Does that economics course teach both Keynesian (Keynes) and classical (Smith) theories? There's nothing wrong if it doesn't; just be aware that there are other (possibly "more correct") schools of thought out there.

One free course I've taken online, and recommend it to everyone, is the Hillsdale College "Constitution 101" course.

http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/

 

Most of the free online courses are the same courses they teach in house at colleges... Oh, I learned Pluto was a Planet... guess I was taught wrong...