Downloadable Audio-Book Services?

Mahnmut

I want to have some books in audio form so that I can entertain myself from time to time while resting my poor eyes. I figured that light but lengthy fare like the Wheel of Time series would be perfect for this. Imagine my surprise when I found that when WoT made the jump from paperback to mp3, its price became $Texas. So, obviously the thing to do is find a more economical way to procure audio-books.

Right now I'm looking at audible.com, which has a $15/month subscription plan on which you can accquire (and own) one book per month. It seems a good deal; I don't think I'd go through more than one audio-book in a month. Does anyone know of another good service?

Thanks!

Taximes

My library is part of a service that allows card-holders to download audibooks. I doubt that you go to my library, but perhaps yours has something similar.

Even if you couldn't download them, I'm sure they'd have them on CDs that you could rip to MP3 quite easily.

E.Coyote

This site has a large listing of audio books from the public domain that can be downloaded for free,

http://librivox.org/

MichaelLC

I looked around for other services, and Audible was a pretty good deal, as you could get books or radio (Car Talk), or newspapers or whatever. Nice feature was how you didn't have to d/l right away; could save in your account, then d/l later.

Looks like they've got some crazy credit thing now. Don't know what that's all about. Used to be just d/l two or three "things" per month, either book, or radio, or whatever.

I went to www.audiobooks.com, and looks like most of the fiction are abbridged. Forget that, yo!

Recoilless

Audible.com
Pretty good. Plus you can keep signing up under new names for more free books.

skeldare

Itunes has audiobooks, though I've never used them so I'm not sure of their selection/price.

Mahnmut

skeldare wrote: »

Itunes has audiobooks, though I've never used them so I'm not sure of their selection/price.

It's not a fantastic selection, and the prices are fairly high. Anyhow, thanks all. My local library also has a miserable audio-book selection (first place I checked), but I'll be making some use of that librivox site for sure.