Is there anywhere that has free audiobooks of public domain books?

[Deskisamess]

I use the voice over accessibility option on my iPhone when I'm working around the house or sewing. I mostly do this with lite fiction, not for heavier reads. It works very well, and is much improved over past TTS.

It works the best from the Kindle app, you can't have vertical scrolling on. For some reason using the option from the iPhone Books app doesn't work as well. It stops at the end of each chapter and you have to hit the PLAY button again.

Accessibility--Spoken Content--Speak Screen On--Speech Controller On--Show Controller

I use Siri Voice 4

[paola]

Originally Posted by tym

If you have a windows pc, and a android phone, it is entirely possible to turn any ebook into an audio book. I kinda figured it some time ago, and use it tons. With your pc, you will first have to remove the drm. I know calibre can do it, myself, I bought and use epubor, it was like 50 bucks. It removes the drm pretty easy. I then put Moon reader pro on my android, last I saw it was like 7 bucks for a life time license.

After I remove the drm from my kendal book, I move the drm free ebook to to my phone so I can use it on moon reader pro. After I open on moon reader pro, Moon reader pro has a text to speech engine. I use a Google voice, which is free and already on my phone. Works great. There are several free google voices to choose from. They sound amazing. So that is how I take my amazon books that I bought, put them on my phone, and with moon reader pro, turn it into a audio book. I never share kendal books. I just remove the drm so I can read the book on my android phone, or tablet. Then sometimes I read them, sometimes I listen to them.

Epubor automatically finds your kendal books you download to your computer. So after you download your book to read it, open epubor, and it will have it and simply drag and drop, and poof, no more drm. It's such a simple and easy process. Hope that helps.

thanks for the Moon Pro suggestion. Pocketbook reader is also a free app with decent TTS capability. It will use whatever premium voices you have on your device, if you have any.

[Highroller]

If you're looking for comforting audiobooks, I found audiobooks helped me deal with anxiety, too, especially at bedtime. Librivox is a great suggestion, but the volunteer readers can be hit or miss, depending on your taste. I've had better luck with curated audiobooks, ones with professional narration. The right voice makes a difference, especially when trying to relax. You mentioned ""bedtime"" reading and classics; I think The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a great listen that adds a unique, vivid storytelling experience.

You can explore this audiobook here: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/716918544/The-Lottery . The variety and quality are high; you can choose a lot of options here))