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Audiobooks at Duke

Search the library catalog:

  • Try a keyword search for "audio book" or "audiobook".
  • Use the Advanced search and choose the Format "Audio" in the dropdown menu, and do a keyword search using "book".

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.

Our digitally downloadable audiobooks come via NetLibrary's eAudiobook Center. You must be recognized as a Duke user (look for the icon in the upper left) and create a free personal account to use NetLibrary.  The eAudiobook file formats will not work on iPods, but can be used on other mp3 players.  For help downloading or listening to eAudiobooks, see NetLibrary's help.

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.