Alternatively, if listening via a smartphone, you can use a handful of apps created by third-party developers to access the LibriVox library. You can download MP3s or stream recordings in your browser.

Plenty of LibriVox audiobooks are read out by celebrities or authors too.Īlthough LibriVox has a smaller selection than its competitors, it’s an ideal place to listen to classic works. How is that possible? Well, LibriVox only offers public domain titles, which are typically based on novels or non-fiction works written decades ago, long enough for their copyright protection to have expired.Īnother unique thing about LibriVox is that some of its titles are read and recorded by volunteers who make community submissions (opens in new tab) from anywhere in the world. Unlike the other audiobook services we’ve already explored, this is a place where you can find completely free audiobooks to download and listen to. If you don’t want to burn through your savings with a monthly audiobook subscription, LibriVox is probably the right website for you. That’s because Google Audiobooks works with a variety of voice commands which allow you to jump chapters or adjust playback speed without pressing a button. The best way to listen to a Google audiobook is through Google Home or on any device that supports the Google Assistant tool. Of course, you can listen to audiobooks from Google on any Google OS device such as Android and Chromecast products, but there’s also a Google Audiobook app for Apple products. That means if you only listen to around a dozen titles per year, Google will probably be the cheaper of the two.Īlthough its selection of titles is certainly smaller than Audible’s, there are still thousands of audiobook titles available through the Google Play store. Our price comparison of a handful of best-seller titles showed that Google Audiobooks consistently prices audiobooks equal to or cheaper than a single credit monthly subscription with Audible.

The key differentiator of Google Audiobooks is that it only sells audiobooks individually, and there’s no need to pay a monthly fee to access to affordable prices. Launched in 2018, Google Audiobooks isn’t as well established as Audible, but it’s clearly designed to take it on.

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