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Free access to 1800 audiobooks for iPhone – Apple Investor in the Wilderness

Frances Henderson May 31, 2009 2 min read
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May 26th, 2009

by Mel Martin.

Filed under: Freeware, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review

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. The results are then released for free.

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, quite a bit slower over 3G, but usable. You can start listening while a download is ongoing, which is a plus. 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.

Here are a few screen grabs:

TUAWFree access to 1800 audiobooks for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 26 May 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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