Digital Audio Books
Overdrive Audio Books
Explore our growing collection of digital audio books and use your library card to download titles to your computer, transfer them to a compatible MP3/WMA player, or burn selected books onto a CD for listening on the go. Available 24/7, now your library is always open!
If you don't have a compatible MP3 player, then this collection is available to you via one of the free MP3 players which can be borrowed from Central Library. Just visit the Central Library Fiction desk or call (04) 801-4065 during library opening hours, tell us which book you want added to your Overdrive account, and we will download it for you onto the player. You can borrow the player for two weeks.
Other online audio books
Librivox
"LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
Openculture
"Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that are freely available on the web", pulling together downloadable audio books which are available on the Internet for free. These files include iTunes files (requiring software, see below), as well as general MP3 downloads. Also linked are audio book podcast sites.
Audible.com
Audible.com is an online commercial website offering downloadable audio books in MP3 (iPod-compatible) format. Registration required.
iTunes
Apple Computers offer downloadable audio books via their iTunes Music Store (please note that prices are in USD$). A software installation of iTunes is required before connecting to the store.
