Audio Books for Free...

The previous post was about free online books and where to get them. If a textbook is one that contains text on paper or on a web page, then what is an audio book? Yep, you got the right answer. An audio book is a "book" that contains audio on... On what? On a CD or in a music file format. Yeah, that's it!

Imagine Mr. A reading a book and recording it with a microphone. Simple, he has already created an audio book. Whether save on the PC as a file or recorded on CD, Mr. A can listen to what he read anytime he wants to.

Audio books are not always created using the above methods. With all the technology in this era, man has been able to make software that can "read" books and save the audio. That is, software that can convert text to speech. Pages from books are scanned by the software, converted to text and then "read" into audio.

Some people prefer audio books to textbooks. I think this is just because of the convenience of relaxing, leaning back on an armchair and feeling some breeze while learning at the same time. This can be a bit misleading, though, if you over enjoy it.

Where can you find these books and get them free of charge? I have already done the research and collected some web sites for you. Just visit them and get smart with their content. On these sites, you will find the books recorded as mp3 files. On some sites, only the low quality books are available for free. No problem! Just download them and I will teach you how to regain their original quality.

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
http://librivox.org/
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php
http://www.free-books.org/
http://www.learnoutloud.com/
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060928/3829/

These are the best I have found. I hope they be as useful to you as they are to me.

Playing the downloaded mp3 files or streaming them directly from the web can't be much of a problem since full functioning computers always have at least one music player, e.g. windows media player for PCs with windows platform.

Yours Truly,
Ferdinand CHE.