How To Find Audiobooks

Audiobooks at Duke

Search the library catalog:

• Try a keyword search for "audiobooks".
• Use the Advanced search and choose the Format "Audio Book" in the dropdown menu.

The 'Location' information will generally tell you if the book is a cassette tape, CD, or in a digitally downloadable format.  Cassette and CD audiobooks are found in several libraries across campus.

Audiobooks on the web

There are a number of sources for download of audiobooks on the web, most of them for a fee.  They include:

• audiobooks.org  Includes their own free content and links to for-fee content providers, as well as foreign language sites.
• Audible.com  Pay per download or get a monthly subscription plan.
  
• iTunes Audiobooks. Mostly for purchase.
• iTunes U.  Includes free audiobooks of some classics and scholarly works.
• librivox.org  Cooperative project to provide free audiobooks from books in the public domain.
  

Audiobooks on CD can be purchased through most booksellers, including online.

Talking Books is a free National Library Service providing audiobooks to the blind and visually disabled.