Audio Libraries

Introduction

Apps, sites, and other tools that can help you listen to texts.

Audiobooks we recommend! Most are hard to find for free so get em here!

  • large selection of free audio books to download.
  • All audiobooks are in the public domain (in the USA)
  • recorded by volunteers to contribute to the project. The quality varies with crowd-sourcing in this way, but it's a highly valuable free resource.
  • powered by Amazon, offers a wide range of titles and genres, and it looks good doing it; unlike many a competitor, the site's design is "clean and simple."
  • Many of the audiobooks can be listened to as podcasts, so you can access them easily on an iPhone via the Apple Podcasts app.
  • apps, Libby and Sora (available in the App Store), work with libraries and schools
  • Libby instructs users on how to get a library card in order to connect them to local public libraries
  • Overdrive houses audiobooks, and Sora utilizes student logins to grant student users access to Overdrive's catalog of audiobooks in their school's library.
  • Volunteer voices contribute to their human-read audiobook collection, and the site also houses a computer-read audiobook collection. If you've got a book you'd like digitized that Project Gutenberg doesn't already have in their catalog, send them an email.
  • Archive grants users access to Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive. I
  • nstead of visiting each of those five catalogs and searching them individually, you can head over to Archive to do a master search.
  • Archive doesn't only handle audiobooks, web pages, images, and software programs, it also offers free audio access to over 200,000 live concerts. The audio files on Archive can be streamed directly from the site.
  • great youtube channel with a voice reading classic theory in the most beautiful voice
  • Audible Anarchist is a project started and operated by a group of volunteers that seek to bring important anarchist texts to the audio format.
  • If you or anyone you know wants to contribute in any way drop us a line at audibleanarchist@gmail.com , help is always welcome.
  • audiobooks and audiozines of anarchist and related texts.