Does Anyone free classic Audio books from ?

[MintyCandyCane]

Does anyone know where I can download some decent free audio books for dd to listen to on long car journeys ? She would prefer to read like her sister but gets car sick - so I thought I could download some and put them on an ipod. However, I am having trouble finding any.

[bran]

Have you tried Librivox? The books aren't read by professionals so the quality of the reading is variable, but I've enjoyed books from there.

[MintyCandyCane]

Sorry title is missing a "know where I can" blasted cat on the keyboard.

[MintyCandyCane]

OOOh thank you - are there particular ones you thought were well read ?

[bran]

I wasn't listening to children's books so can't comment on those, but I enjoyed Turn of the Screw and Pride and Prejudice. There are often several versions of popular books so I just listened for a couple of minutes and if I didn't like the voice I tried another version of the same book. (Pride and Prejudice just sounded wrong somehow when read with an American accent.)

I'm pretty sure it's possible to transfer an audio cd into an mp3 file too, so you could possibly borrow cds from your library, if it stocks them, and then load it up for your daughter.

[bruffin]

Have you tried your local library, also DS now downloads audio books from the online library website. Only problem with that is they self distruct after 30 days.

[elkiedee]

How old is your dd? I'd echo the library suggestion, I've put bought and borrowed audio CDs on mine along with the music.

[MintyCandyCane]

you can download audio books from the library ? - I had no idea. I am behind the times dd is ten. She might like Pride and Predjudice actually bran I will dowload that one thanks.

[MintyCandyCane]

Do i go to my local library website for downloads bruffin ?

[lizziemun]

I found this site when looking a similar thing at christmas

[domesticextremist]

You can get them out on cd from the library and then bung them onto your mp3 tho?

[bruffin]

We are in Herts and the library website is central for all of Hertfordshire. We can renew books, reserve books and download ebooks and audiobooks.

I have copied some of ds's audio books onto his ipod as well.

[MintyCan]

thanks so much for all your help !