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There are several websites that offer full-length, completely free audiobook downloads, and I've tried most of them to pick out the absolute best options. Unlike most sites with “free” audiobooks, these sources are 100% legal, either because they’re public domain titles or because the websites have permission from the author.
Digitalbook.io (formerly Librophile) is a directory that makes it easy to find public domain audiobook downloads. You can download the whole audiobook, play just a clip, or open the book as a podcast.
I like that I can browse by trending or popular audiobooks to find one I might like, or look through the list of genres, authors, or languages. This website is incredibly clean and easy to use. I never have any difficulty finding something interesting.
LibriVox has a huge selection of free audiobooks that are recordings of volunteers who have read chapters from books that are in the public domain.
You can find one by searching by title, author, genre/subject, or language. You can also browse all the titles in the catalog, view only the most additions, and subscribe to new releases as podcasts.
Once you reach a book's description page, you can read more about it and even listen to the chapters individually without having to download each of them.
However, if you do want to download the whole audiobook, every chapter included, you can do so in a ZIP file, directly from LibriVox. Some are also available through a torrent and M4B file.
Something I like about this site, that I recommend you use too, is the advanced search tool. It lets you find a book in any genre by searching for keywords and other things like language and status (to make sure you get fully finished books).
Most of the time, books download as MP3 files (or sometimes WMA or AAC files) that can play on your computer, tablet, phone, iPod, or MP3 player. There are free audio converter software programs you can use if you need the audiobook to be in a different file format.
If your local library has a subscription to OverDrive (check OverDrive's library finder to find out), then this is a great place to find over 500,000 free audiobook downloads of recent fiction and non-fiction books, including bestsellers.
You'll check these out just like you would a library book, and they'll be returned at the end of the loan period. You can even do it all from the Libby mobile app for iOS and Android.
One thing I can't pass up mentioning is how easy searching for audiobooks here can be. Not only are you able to sort the list by popularity and release date, filters let you ensure that it's just the audiobooks (not e-books) that you see, and they can be in a specific language and/or by a particular publisher or creator.
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It's easy to use Loyal Books (formerly Books Should Be Free) to download free audiobooks. You can view the audiobooks by the language, the Loyal Books top 100, and by genre like Children, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and more than a dozen others.
You can listen to these books on their 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, and even get the book through an RSS reader. There's also a Loyal Books mobile app for iOS and Android.
These are public domain books, so you might not see anything here that differs from the other public domain audiobook websites I've already mentioned.
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If you're 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 use Apple Podcasts to listen to the Storynory podcasts. There's also an app for iOS devices, but it's not free.
If you like to keep your book collection in your Google account to read in the Google Play Books app, you'll enjoy the free options offered to you.
Visit the link below, and then scroll down to the Free in fiction or Free in nonfiction section to see the free audiobooks Google offers. There aren't many, but they are totally free and legal, and will be added to your account in just a few moments.
Listen to these audiobooks through the Google Play Books website or with the app for Android or iOS. If you use the website, you can export an audiobook to M4A to play it elsewhere.
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The Internet Archive also has a ton of free audiobook downloads that you can browse through by subject, keywords, or using the search box.
My favorite way to find books here is by sorting by view count to find the most popular ones. Some of those include The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, The Swiss Family Robinson, Moby Dick, The Art of War, and Dracula.
Some are available in multiple formats so that you can download the book in MP3 or OGG format, for example.
The MindWebs page is one part of the Internet Archive that has several dozen classic sci-fi audiobooks.
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.
One thing I like is that a transcription of the stories are provided on the same page as the audio stream. This is great if you like to read along to what you're listening to.
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.
Some examples include Romeo and Juliet, The Wind in the Willows, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Autobiography of Mark Twain.
LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD. Catalog.
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Talking Book Topics (TBT) lists a selection of titles recently added to the NLS collection and available through a network of cooperating libraries or the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service.
