You can download these stories directly onto your computer and put them on your iPod or other mobile device, burn them onto a CD to listen to in the car, etc. Here are some of the best sources to find free audio books on the web:
- Free Classic Audio Books: Many classic stories here (Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, etc.).
- Librivox is a fantastic place to find audio books. This is usually the first place I go to find books for my iPod.
- Podiobooks is an interesting way to get audio books; they offer complete books in episodic form so you can get just a chapter at a time via RSS or by iTunes; in addition, you can simply click and listen to a story online.
- OpenCulture Free Audio books: Long list of really good free audio books here; you can also find poetry and podcasts here.
- AudioBooksForFree is a large site that offers hundreds of audio books for free download; the only hitch is that their books and lectures come in small files (you can download a book all at once for a fee).
- ThoughtAudio has a good selection of classic audio books available for free download.
- Learn Out Loud is a gigantic collection of free audio books, lectures, and educational podcasts. One of the best resources for free audio books.
- Lit2Go: from the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse, a collection of stories and poems in audio book format.
- BooksShouldBeFree gives you a dozen plus categories to choose free audio books from, anything from Anthropology to War.
- Project Gutenberg has a huge selection of human-read audio books available. You can search by author, title, language, and more.
