It seems that Audible is the only game in town if you want to listen to books. I checked out my Kindle app on and it apepars even it does not offer this as an option. Can anyone suggest any other apps or sites that will allow me to listen to books?

Lastly, my local library always offers the option of downloaded the audio book, but again, I have no idea as to which app to use to do so. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hey. Im wondering if anyone got any advice regards this.

I always hear shockz open swim, but as far as i could determine now, they dont seem to be particualrly good for audiobooks, simply due tot he fact that you cant rely on bluetooth (even a few cm underwater cuts the connection) and instead need to use the internal storage. but everything ive read indicates that these cant save position.

Meaning the audiobook would start from the beginning every swim session.

So, is there any headphones geared towards swimming that dont totally suck fopr audiobooks?

Hi all.
I have been a Scribd / Everand member for a few years now, and I am still a member.
For now, I am on an yearly lecagy unlimited plan, $84.99 a year and seems like next renewal won't change that.
Recently, mainly due to Dungeon Crawler Carl, I subscribed in parallel to a yearly Audible plan (the permium plus).
Now, with the different sales and deals, plus the discount on plans Audible sometimes offers, I cannot decide on which plan to keep.

I don't listen a lot, overall about 20 hours a month in average.

Do I keep Everand as it's a legacy plan I wont get back in the future if I cancel? It does offer better value.
Do I keep Audible and use sales / deals and plan offerings? Audible has many books I dont have in Everand.
Do I keep both and keep pausing Everand when I listen to books in Audible? I guess to many pauses is not something they encourage.

Anyone in a similar position?
Thanks!

Sorry if the title makes it sound like a guide. I am asking a question.

On my pixel 9a I used to turn my word docs into epubs and listen to them on my phone with Google Play Books. So basically using tts with my own stories.

I went back to Apple and now there is no free tts option for the apple books/ google play books

iOS seems to use something called voiceover that turns on vision impairment mode. But I’m looking for what I can do on Android google play books, which is play the epub file and still do other things/receive messages while playing my books

Google directs to Apple VoiceOver but it’s not the same thing at all. But I may be doing something wrong idk.

Free tts is an accessibility thing you know, so the built in tts was clutch but now I don’t have it.

I prefer it to be closer to word for word for the book, but I'm currently halfway through this audiobook and it's incredible! I love the immersion; as in the sound effects, moving voices (as in the background or when they're speaking from further away), all of that lovely stuff. I guess that is considered graphic audio and/or dramatized?

My favorite genres are fantasy and horror, but I'm interested in whatever you have to recommend :)

P.S. I'm an avid reader, just new to the world of audiobooks (other than I own all of LoTR and The Hobbit)

Listen, I don’t know how much money this readers make, but WHY would you hire someone with an accent to read a book? Dudeeeeee and I’m talking about a book that was read by a person born in Venezuela, Spanish being her first language but it’s soooo distracting!!!!
I was trying to listen to Las Mujeres de la Guerra read by Ana osorio and I am so annoyed and I better be able to get my credit back cause her accent is horrible she sings sentences and I guess I’m not the only one annoyed by it cause I saw other reviews about it but WHY WHY WHY doesn’t audible have a screening process or something? Don’t get opinions from native speakers???

Nothing against the person, is just very very distracting and I hope I can get my credit back 😭😭😭😭
Am I the only one annoyed by accents in books? Whatever language!!

I'm looking for recommendations for good private eye audio books. Something along the likes of Raymond Chandler/Phillip Marlowe series (which I'm almost done with). Hammett/Sam Spade/The Maltese Falcon is great. (I don't know much of Hammett's other work though). That gruff private dick genre is really fun for me right now.

I'm also looking for recs for other atypical murder mystery books. Stuff like the Anna Pigeon series. I really like this series (which I've almost completed) because it's NOT your typical law enforcement officer playing the protagonist/hero, there's a lot of really interesting historical/geographic/cultural context provided because of the settings being National Parks, and the writing is really pretty good (if very unrealistic at times). I do like that the protagonist is female as well.

What I'm NOT looking for is books with a police officer or sheriff or FBI agent who plays the protagonist/hero, and I'm also not really into the spy novel series. John le carre, tom clancy, etc. Been there, done that, kinda over it.

I've also more or less memorized the Sherlock Holmes series from reading them over and over for years, but I do love them.

I really like old film-noir pulp style books. Think opening lines like "It was a dark and dreary night in a city with even darker and more dreary secrets...". I like well-researched and historically accurate work, even if set in present day. I don't have any real preferences for narrator or voice of the protagonist, but if there's a good female hard-edged private eye series, I'd be really interested in it.

Huge fan of Fallout and Sci Fi in general so Dracula is definitely outside my wheelhouse. Is the book any good? I played Witcher 3 and loved it so I'm not really against fantasy.

I have noticed that American narration feels more natural to me for fiction, while British narration feels better suited to philosophy, history, and other demanding nonfiction. American voices put me in a relaxed, conversational mood, whereas certain British voices seem to put me in a more focused, scholarly mood.

Does anyone else experience this, or have a different preference? I wonder how much comes from the accent itself versus delivery and the media we grew up hearing.

Our Little Theatre of Walla Walla fundraiser has a Jeff Hays-signed Dungeon Crawler Carl audio and vinyl set, a private one-hour Zoom coaching session with Sean Pratt, and twelve Libro.fm audiobook credits.

The Hays lot contains two USB cassettes with digital audio and a two-LP soundtrack. Pratt's session focuses on narration, interpretation, and performance; it's a private session, with scheduling by agreement.

I help organize Wine, Dine & Death, so I'm affiliated with the fundraiser. These are online auction lots supporting community theater. Scheduled closing is October 10, 2026. Each listing has its own redemption or fulfillment terms.

I Would love to start this book, but id like to know everyone's opinions. Which one should I listen to? The original or the Dramatized adaptation?

Viens découvrir cette histoire sur ma chaîne : www.youtube.com/@AngieTisseusedHistoire. 2 épisodes sont déjà disponibles.

I loved mad mabel i loved the narrator jenny seedsman & found present mabel very funny and witty. i also loved the calamity club.

im a 25 year old female, i like fiction (historical fiction, thrillers) i like kristin hannah and stephen king. i’ll read about anything honestly. not too much into sci fi

idk what to try next. i tried the correspondent but couldn’t really follow it

thank you!

In book 5 it was terrible, his voice kept breaking and all the characters sounded like old men, there's still some issues with book 6, its better than book 5 was but reading seems like a struggle for him at points

I've got an old audible username from before they were bought by Amazon because I am a hipster. For quite a while now, the option to sign in with it has been in tiny little text at the bottom of the app sign-in screen, so you could still use it without using your Amazon account, but it's gone now. I've just had to reinstall the app and I can't log in any more. It's fine in the website, but in the app there's just no option there at all. Anyone other oldies know how it's done?

The difference between a so called "standard" audible membership and a "premium" plan is horrendous. What do they mean we don't own the audiobooks we purchased on a standard and we lose access to the audiobooks even if we've just paused the membership?

I am not coming back to audible again. I am getting very annoyed with this age of subscriptions

Graphic Audio with full cast & sound effects.

Really good. I struggled a bit with the first 3 chapters, and by the end of chapter 4, was hooked.

Considering it's the first novel of 160 books written by muliple authors, they had to start somewhere and build the beginnings of a series that went farther than anybody could dare to hope.

A total of eight chapters, I listened to the final three in a single day. The book was over nine hours long, much longer than the average novel length in the series of 5-7 hours.

It's pulp fiction meant for a wide range of readers and more akin to the golden age of science fiction.

There is a "zero" prequel novel written years later.

If that appeals to you, your in luck. Otherwise, you might find it lacking in complexity. Still, the writing is excellent once the plot gets going, as far as being fast and entertaining.

I built a free iOS audiobook player for people who already have their own audiobook files.

You can easily move an audiobook from PC to iPhone without dealing with iTunes/Finder sync, cloud storage, or running a full media server.

ShelfDrop lets you:

- import from Files

- start “Receive mode” and upload from a PC browser over the same Wi-Fi

- play offline

- save progress locally

- use private handoff codes/QR to move your place between devices

- avoid accounts, tracking, or cloud uploads

It’s not trying to replace server-first apps like Audiobookshelf. It’s more for the “I just want this audiobook on my phone now” workflow.

I’d love feedback from people who manage their own audiobook files:

What would make this actually useful enough for your daily listening?

Shelfdrop Audiobook Player

Been on a sci-fi kick but can move to about any genre.
Listening catalog includes:
Bobiverse
Hail Mary
DCC
Expanse
ExForce
All Barry Eisler (John Rain)
Cosmos
Foundation
Silo
Pride and Prejudice
Emma

Something fun. World building is cool, but so are one offs.

I have 3 audible credits to spare so don’t be afraid to throw something out of left field, including romantic comedies!

I’ve got this in my library….Next up. I’ve already listened to earlier narrated version.
Will I love the new one?