Audio in USA not on Audible

Apart from Audible and public libraries, does anyone know of any other sources for audio books?

For purchase, have you tried www.chirpbooks.com ?

Guttenburg, LIBBY

>3 bergs47: I didn’t know that was possible. How do you add it as a source?

Tried it with your spelling and Gutenberg

>1 kjuliff:

Can still get many audiobooks on CD, of course.

>3 bergs47: Libby is the Overdrive interface, which is a public library connection.

>4 2wonderY: >3 bergs47: I wasn’t asking about adding a source in LT or about an app (I have Libby), but wanted to know where to buy/borrow audio books apart from public libraries and Amazon’s Audible.
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>2 gilroy: Thanks, I’ve had a quick look. Seems competitive in price. Do you use the chirp app?

>8 kjuliff: I only use the other side of that company: bookbub.com -- that's for finding low price and on sale ebooks. I knew about their audio book site from the ads I always get, but haven't actually tried them.

Librivox do free audio books - books in public domain read by volunteers

Apple's I-books have some audio books available - and at least in the UK, so I presume also in the US, some are free (tends to be classics that are free)

I saw allyoucanbooks.com advertised in a few places - but no idea if it's any good in terms of what's available or quality or what the long term cost is (ads show it as free but that's just a trial not permanent).

>10 Peace2: Thank you. Will look into these,

>10 Peace2:

I once sampled some poems on Librivox. The readers left a lot to be desired; professional voice actors make a big difference. Guess novels, stories and nonfiction might work out better.

I actually was a reader volunteer in my 30s, not ever imagining I’d need such a service

>2 gilroy: just joined Chipbooks. Thanks

Libro.fm is used by many indie bookstores in the US to sell audiobooks.

>12 dukedom_enough: I wouldn't disagree with you, but there are some on there that were very listenable when I tried them out, as well as some that I gave up on, but for something that's free, I found it worth a poke around for a while. If you find a reader you like you can search for other things read by them - which might be a good method to find the ones that most suit the listener.

I do tend to stick with the local library's offering through Libby and Borrowbox and Audible for the most part now. Mind you, I've had some from Audible and the library that I've had to give up on due to awful narration and they were from professionals and not volunteers.

>16 Peace2: I useLibby, was unaware of Borrowbox. Is there much difference between the two?

I find mine at thrift stores. I am listening to a Clive Cussler book now I bought from one.

>18 mnleona: great idea; hadn’t thought of that. Thanks.

An alternative to Audible is Kobo (or Rakuten Kobo). Check it out at https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobooks/trendingnow

>17 kjuliff: My library seem to be currently updating the offerings on Borrowbox more often *this is relative - and doesn't mean it's often or many new titles at a time* and have some good choices - although I've read most of what interested me on both now and so I'm back to waiting again for there to be something I really want to read. It looked like they were going to be better at buying series but that's slipping already - this is one of my biggest gripes about the library in general and the audio collections in particular - why do libraries buy random books in the middle of a series (ones where you need to read them all in order) so that as a user you have to source the earlier titles yourself?

>21 Peace2: yes I’ve noticed that myself, though I’ve only recently been dependent on audio books. I’ve taken to listening to short stories while I wait for books I really want, to come off hold.

>20 jburlinson:

I use Kobo for text ebooks (don't usually use audiobooks). Quite satisfactory, though they don't always get to offer the deals that Kindle does.

A lady at the library yesterday recommended Scribd. $12/month and unlimited borrows. Has anyone here tried it?

I recently joined LIBBY (the OverDrive reincarnation) because the original OverDrive is being phased out by my library system.

I also use hoopla via my local library system.

Both provide free audios, eBooks and magazines.

>24 2wonderY: I use it and like it, but the unlimited comes with a caveat: they kind of throttle you if you listen to or read more than a certain number of books during a billing cycle, and you won't know you've hit that number until you find the more popular books marked unavailable until the next cycle. You'll still have access to tons of stuff after you've hit their mysterious threshold, but it tends to be less desirable stuff.