16 of Our Favorite Places to Download Free Audiobooks in 2024

Stacy is a professional technology educator with over 25 years' experience. She has published hundreds of articles, co-authored a book, and has appeared on national and local TV.

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Many websites provide totally free, full-length audiobook downloads, and I've tested them to pinpoint the very best choices. Unlike many "free" audiobook sites, these sources are entirely legal. This access is possible either because the audiobooks are in the public domain or because the websites have explicit permission from the authors.

Looking for more free books in other formats? I keep a list of my top sources for free Kindle books and another for free Nook books.

Digitalbook.io

• Launch audiobooks in iOS Podcasts app.
• Several ways to locate a new free audiobook.
• Lots of well-known and lesser-known titles.
• Several languages and categories to choose from.

• Relatively small collection.
• Includes titles that are free only with Audible.

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.

Though the collection isn't very large, 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.

There are over 100,000 items here, and while some are audiobooks, others are regular e-books.

LibriVox

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• Listen to specific chapters without downloading them.
• Several ways to find a specific title.
• Receive new audiobooks by podcast.
• Available in many languages.
• Works on mobile devices.

• Can't sort by most popular.
• Reading quality varies by narrator.
• Audio quality isn't always consistent.

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.

These books are also available through a mobile app for iOS and Android, so you can download them to your phone or tablet, or stream them on the go.

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