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So grab the best audiobook apps below and start listening to your favorite books. It offers contemporary best-selling books, with both fiction and non-fiction, and award-winning celebrity narrators to read to you. Playback features are good, with multitasking support, variable speed, chapter navigation, and more.
This app features syncing across devices, offline downloads, the ability to send any of your books to someone you know they receive the first item free , and integration with Amazon Prime membership for access to exclusive content. Amazon Kindle is undoubtedly the most popular ebook reader app that also has native support for Audiobooks.
Interestingly, Amazon owns the Audible, so you get everything from there along with the readable book format. There are millions of audiobooks and millions of regular books as well. LibriVox makes listening to spoken books a pleasure to choose over 24, free audiobooks and unlimited access. As well as bestsellers and classics, this app also offers some books out of print for those who have been seeking something out.
The books can be Internet-streamed or downloaded for offline use later, and users can search by title, keyword, or genre. If you like listening to one particular narrator, you can even narrow the choice down further. Further features include unlimited bookmarks, a sleep timer, and support for Android Auto , Google Cast, and Bluetooth controls.
In-app-purchases apply to some new releases, bestsellers, and professional works, and a premium version is also available. Overall, LibriVox Audio Books is a decent option for beginners. This reader app is designed primarily for playing audiobooks that you already downloaded or imported to your phone.
It includes bookmarking, control widgets for the home page and notification tray , variable playback speed, automatic pause, Chromecast support , and progress saving. A nice feature is organizing your books by adding cover art and other info, which makes the library look pretty. The basic version is free to use but you can try the premium features for 30 days before making a decision if the upgrade worth it.
Surprisingly it is also an excellent podcast app with over , podcast episodes, so you get the best of both worlds. Audiobooks can be streamed over mobile data or Wi-Fi or downloaded to your mobile device. Users can create custom bookmarks, including comments and notes, rate and review the titles, and sync listening across devices.
This is a basic but completely open-source free audiobook app for Android. It has no ads and a clean and streamlined look based on Material Design. You add a folder containing files, and away you go! It can remember your last position and adjust playback speed and includes a sleep timer and bookmarks, among other features. The audiobook app from Sanity Audio Apps offers more than 12, free audiobooks to listen to via streaming over the Internet.
You can listen and read books at the same time. This is another free audiobook app you should check out. Listen Audiobook Player is a paid app; however, it comes with a ton of pro features. Users can manually specify a root folder, or the app can automatically scan for books. As for features, you can tweak all kinds of settings for the player, including variable playback speed 0. The app supports many formats and works with android auto plus some gesture control like shake to reset sleep timer, search and view bookmark, create an audio clip of a particular part of the book, and share with friends.
Users are also able to download audiobooks from Librivox directly. Overdrive, an audiobook app, has a rather different idea as users can sign up with or without a library card from a participating library, institution, or school. That means that instead of visiting the library, it comes to you! The benefit of using a library card is that over 30, libraries worldwide have collaborated with OverDrive to offer audiobooks and eBooks.
Because of this, you can avoid late fees as the titles are returned on time from your smartphone or tablet. Downpour is one of the newer audiobooks apps that has select audiobooks on offer that can be rented for either 30 or 60 days or a library of audiobooks for sale.
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This morning he had gone to her room at daybreak, only to find both his cousin and the shirt missing. Not a good sign. Had Tigris given up on the old thing and braved the black market in some last-ditch effort to find him proper clothing?
And what on earth would she possess worth trading for it? Only one thing—herself—and the house of Snow had not yet fallen that far. Or was it falling now as he salted the cabbage? The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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