Filed under: Freeware, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
Free access to 1800 audiobooks for iPhone
Your iPhone/iPod touch listening options just got a lot larger. Audiobooks, [App Store] a free app, gives you a large catalog of public domain classic works from Dickens to Verne for your listening pleasure.The books come from the LibriVox library, a non-profit project that has volunteers read the books and then releases the free recordings.
The app is ad-supported, but the ads are not obtrusive in my view. The books I listened to were competently read. Downloading was quick over WiFi,
Downsides are that every chapter starts with disclaimers about the book being in the public domain, which kind of breaks the mood.
The search function works well, but would be better if you could search by genre. There is a nice surprise me button, which gives you a book at random, but in practice that isn't really that helpful.
The developer of this app also sells audiobooks at the iTunes Store, which we have reviewed. These audiobooks show the text synced to the audio, but I do not find that a compelling feature. I think the new app is the way to go.
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