From Wendy Boswell,
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If you're looking for free audiobooks, the web is the best place to find them. There are plenty of sites that offer free audiobooks that are in the public domain, read by very talented narrators (I wouldn't suggest listening to the books narrated by computers; they sound very odd and take away from the story, in my opinion). You can download these stories directly onto your computer and put them on your iPod or other mobile device, burn them onto a CD to listen to in the car, etc. Here are some of the best sources to find free audiobooks on the web:

• Free Classic Audio Books: Many classic stories here (Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, etc.).
• Librivox is a fantastic place to find audiobooks. This is usually the first place I go to find books for my iPod.
• Podiobooks is an interesting way to get audiobooks; they offer complete books in episodic form so you can get just a chapter at a time via RSS or by iTunes; in addition, you can simply click and listen to a story online.
• OpenCulture Free Audiobooks: Long list of really good free audiobooks here; you can also find poetry and podcasts here.
• AudioBooksForFree is a large site that offers hundreds of audiobooks for free download; the only hitch is that their books and lectures come in small files (you can download a book all at once for a fee).
• ThoughtAudio has a good selection of classic audiobooks available for free download.
• Learn Out Loud is a gigantic collection of free audiobooks, lectures, and educational podcasts. One of the best resources for free audiobooks.
• Lit2Go: from the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse, a collection of stories and poems in audiobook format.
• BooksShouldBeFree gives you a dozen plus categories to choose free audiobooks from, anything from Anthropology to War.
• Project Gutenberg has a huge selection of human-read audiobooks available. You can search by author, title, language, and more.