Showing posts with label audiobooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audiobooks. Show all posts

Friday, December 8, 2017

LibriVox - audiobooks

Hi All,

The rise of audiobooks in the book world has been nothing short of amazing.  As a matter off fact, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about just this very topic in July 2016.

Click on this link to read the article from the Wall Street Journal. 

With that said, it was inevitable that a website or an organization would, at some point, come up with the idea making accessible free public domain audiobooks. Click on this link to access LibriVox. 

To learn more about LibriVox, users can visit this 'About LibriVox' page. It has links to their 'Fundamental Principles, What LibriVox does?, Contact Information and much more.

The LibriVox homepage has two sides - the left side has a link for volunteers to sign up to read books for LibriVox.  The right side of the page has the Listening part of the page.  This is where users go to listen to an audiobook on the site.

Scrolling down further on the page enables the user to browse the catalog by author, by title, by subject and by language....

Material is able to be listened to on computers, iPods, mobile devices or burned to a CD!

Enjoy the site and the audiobooks!.

Regards,
Stu

Monday, September 19, 2016

Free Ebooks

Hi All,

The library has a fantastic product for downloading ebooks and audiobooks called Overdrive - its free by the way.  Click here for the link.

Using just your library card you can download current fiction, current non-fiction and audiobooks to your iPad, Kindle and other Android devices.

But wait...there's more. Other websites give users access to even more free ebooks and free audiobooks.

Readers can visit Gutenberg.org to download free contemporary fiction and non-fiction ebooks to your devices.  Users must use the Kindle free app or have an Amazon kindle device

However, users can also use HundredZeros to download free and discounted (these cost money)  ebooks that match your interests.  Link to HundredZeros is here.

Finally users can try BookBub.com for even more downloadable books. (Users must register for BookBub though.  BookBub is free to join and you can read on any device. Also, the books are yours to own.

Enjoy the sites and the free ebooks!  Happy reading.

Regards, 
Stu