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Audiobooks have gain immense popularity in the past few years.<\/p>\n
They have completely changed the way information is consumed.<\/p>\n
If you are like some people, you may be reading a few books at a time. With traditional books, that would mean you have to carry a bag full of books with you when you travel.<\/p>\n
But with audiobooks, you can have 100\u2019s of them with you at any moment, all on your phone.<\/p>\n
Audiobooks are also a little cheaper than books.<\/p>\n
You can listen to your books on the go while driving, when working out, running, waiting at the dentist\u2019s office, or whenever you have some\u00a0free time.<\/p>\n
That means you can \u201cread\u201d many more books. There are even a few major audiobook streaming and subscription-based services out there that aim to make it more affordable to consume audiobooks, mainly services like Audible.com (an Amazon company) and AudioBooks.com.<\/p>\n But even audiobook subscription services aren\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n For example, AudioBooks.com charges $14.95 which enables you to stream or download just one book per month.<\/p>\n So what does a budget-savvy bookworm do to satisfy his or her need for books while at the same time staying within the budget?<\/p>\n Thankfully, there are a few dozens great sites that offer 100% free audiobooks.<\/p>\n You can download or stream hundreds of thousands of books for free using these sites.<\/p>\n But weeding through that many sites to find the ones that carry the best and most titles can be time-consuming.<\/p>\n We have done the work and find you the top free audiobook sites for downloading and streaming all kinds of books.<\/p>\n If you like getting paid for surveys, and are going to join only one site, I would recommend Ipsos-iSay. Ipsos is the most fun and well-paying panel. Give it a try to see how you like it. It is free anyway!<\/p>\n Click to Join Ipsos Now!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The list contains the following free audiobook sites:<\/p>\n We will cover each option in detail below.<\/p>\n As the name probably suggests, the content here is more about cultural and educational stuff.<\/p>\n They have done a great job in finding many of the major classics and making them available for free to people.<\/p>\n There are multiple formats for you to download, which is completely obligation free, and you can choose to listen to them at a time and place of your liking.<\/p>\n The website has a functional search bar that makes your navigation easy. You can search by author\u2019s name or the book\u2019s genre.<\/p>\n Project Gutenberg is recognized not just for its huge array of e-books, but also a fantastic collection of audiobooks as well.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t work in isolation. Alongside forward-thinking companies like LibriVox and AudioBooksFor Free, they have built up a massive virtual library.<\/p>\n While I am certainly impressed with the catalog listed, I am intrigued by the fact that I can find books that are purely 100% computer-generated.<\/p>\n This is another project that first made its name on free electronic books.<\/p>\n The Internet Archive Audio has subsequently made its foray into the audio space and now boasts of more than 6000 audiobooks.<\/p>\n They also have a nice collection of poems for download.<\/p>\n As in the case of the paper based physical books, there are also the serialized stories.<\/p>\n Here, they distribute them through RSS feeds.<\/p>\n To get to a certain episode, simply click on the corresponding link and you choose to play the clip instantly, or have it downloaded into your smart devices.<\/p>\n I like LibriVox for its unorthodox way of preparing their audiobooks.<\/p>\n They regularly invite users to send in the recording clips on chapters or sections of books. The resultant audiobooks bring about two very contrasting experience.<\/p>\n You may be the type who gets excited hearing a bunch of noises narrating a story, or you can be simply put off by the idea.<\/p>\n While I applaud LibriVox\u2019s willingness to experiment and take in any user\u2019s speech to incorporate into the final audiobooks, I find the process is still yet to reach the maturity stage. They have to draw up a comprehensive program to make sure that the listening exercise to become more seamless.<\/p>\n Regardless, you can always fall back to the more traditional way of storytelling by checking out books listed as \u201csolo\u201d.<\/p>\n The audiobooks here are multilingual and made up of a wide variety of genres.<\/p>\n The content here is prepared in MP3 format. It consists mostly of poems and stories, and they are all available free of charge.<\/p>\n A useful search function is incorporated into the site so as to facilitate your navigation.<\/p>\n For kids reading stuff, they benchmark Flesch-Kincaid<\/a> grade levels against their collection for kids, so parents could find the appropriate audiobooks.<\/p>\n Librophile has tons of free audiobooks on their site.<\/p>\n You can search by keywords, languages, authors or genres.<\/p>\n A nice feature of Librophile is that it allows you to listen to a short clip before deciding to download the content into your smartphone or notebook.<\/p>\n If you like more serious stuff like politics, science, philosophy and religion, for example, LearnOutLoud Free Audio will appeal to you.<\/p>\n They have really good quality materials around here.<\/p>\n This is the same website that used to be called Books Should Be Free.<\/p>\n The entire collection here is family friendly, and they made up of class literature mostly.<\/p>\n In addition to the conventional novels and stories, often multiple languages in MP3 and MP4 formats, the website also features podcast and RSS feed you can subscribe.<\/p>\n The search function is powered by Google search engine, so it is a breeze to find the content you look for.<\/p>\n To make it easier for you to find what you\u2019re looking for, each individual audiobook is also tagged with a rating system, so you get some sense of the book before you choose to download.<\/p>\n This place has a nice collection. The website also features a popularity chart to let you know what audiobooks are in demand according to genres.<\/p>\n This is an awesome site that contains all the classic books kids must read (or listen to, in this case!).<\/p>\n They have almost all the popular classic kids books you can think of, titles such as \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u201d and \u201cThe Ugly Duckling.\u201d<\/p>\n Here, it is not just about a decent collection of classics, but really excellent classics featuring great names of the past.<\/p>\n This UK-based website allows a no hassle listening from its website directly.<\/p>\n Only the very established writers are featured here.<\/p>\n This site is dedicated to kid story books as well as fairy tales, with a splinter of educational stuff.<\/p>\n Children will find work from Hans Christian Anderson and Grimm Brothers particularly interesting.<\/p>\n Thought Audio tends to cater for those not so mainstream titles.<\/p>\n If you have real problem looking for your favorite titles, you may just get lucky at this website.<\/p>\n This is another site with impressive range of audiobooks.<\/p>\n Users are also encouraged to download their free CD covers.<\/p>\n If you like Nikolle Doolin, you will enjoy this website as the content here is primarily voiced over by him.<\/p>\n Nikolle Doolin is also an established writer, in addition to being a voice actor.<\/p>\n If you like stories to be told in the natural setting, you are going to like it here.<\/p>\n The website owner does the recording herself at home, so you likely to hear background noises like a dog barking. Nevertheless, the stories do make for good bedtime \u201cread\u201d.<\/p>\n This website targets young teenagers and kids.<\/p>\n There are beautiful pictures accompany each audio book, which certainly add appeals to children.<\/p>\n This is another website with kids being the primary audience. The collection boasts of more than 300 titles. You can find some of the kids books for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n I have written about OverDrive<\/a> before. I think OverDrive is one of the most underrated and unknown sources for not only free audiobooks but reading material in general.<\/p>\n You can access thousands of free audiobooks, ebooks, videos and more. All you need is your library card.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t have a library card?<\/p>\n Stop by your local library and get one for free in a few minutes. And no, these are not old public domain stuff. While you can certainly listen to classic, you\u2019ll also find the newest audiobook releases through OverDrive.<\/p>\n And of course, they are all free to listen to.<\/p>\n There you have it, 20 sites where you can download and stream 100% free audiobooks from every genre imaginable.<\/p>\n
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1. Open Culture<\/a><\/h4>\n
2. Gutenberg Audio<\/a><\/h4>\n
3. Internet Archive Audio<\/a><\/h4>\n
4. Podiobooks<\/a><\/h4>\n
5. LibriVox<\/a><\/h4>\n
6. Lit2Go<\/a><\/h4>\n
7. Librophile<\/a><\/h4>\n
8. LearnOutLoud<\/a><\/h4>\n
9. Loyal Books (Previously Books Should Be Free)<\/a><\/h4>\n
10. Audiobooks.net<\/a><\/h4>\n
11. KiddieRecords<\/a><\/h4>\n
12. FreeClassicAudioBooks.com<\/a><\/h4>\n
13. FreeAudioBooks.co.uk<\/a><\/h4>\n
14. Storynory<\/a><\/h4>\n
15. Thought Audio<\/a><\/h4>\n
16. FreeAudioBooks.ws<\/a><\/h4>\n
17. Audio Literature Odyssey<\/a><\/h4>\n
18. Miette\u2019s Bedtime Story Podcast<\/a><\/h4>\n
19. BookBox<\/a><\/h4>\n
20. Kids Audio Books<\/a><\/h4>\n
21.\u00a0OverDrive<\/a><\/h4>\n
OverDrive pairs with local libraries across the country to give you access to over two million books and videos.<\/p>\nFinal thoughts<\/h2>\n