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Downloadable Audio Books

The Louisville Free Public Library now provides free, unabridged, downloadable audio books via NetLibrary and OverDrive. These are high quality recordings. Many new and popular audio books are available. Additional free downloadable audio books can be found online. Here are a few websites that contain free downloadable audio books and a custom search engine for searching for downloadable audio books.

Foreign Service Institute Language Courses - Includes MP3s of language learning audio tapes and PDFs of student textbooks that have entered the public domain. Over twenty languages are represented
LibriVox - Includes public domain books, poetry, and dramatic works read by volunteers.
NetLibrary - Includes best-sellers, book club favorites, biographies, award winning authors, language study programs, young adult fiction, and more.
OverDrive - Includes best-sellers, popular authors, fiction and non-fiction.
Podiobooks.com - Includes serialized audio books available through direct download or RSS feeds.
Project Gutenberg - Includes human read and computer generated audio books.
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Last Updated: 02/06/2008