Build the ultimate audiobook collection
We all love a good story – after all, telling stories around the fire is as old as human language itself. Audiobooks – and radio dramatisations – continue that tradition into the modern age, and thanks to your phone and PC, give you the opportunity to listen to your favourite books wherever you are.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to bring all your audiobooks – whether on CD or in the cloud – into one central library. You’ll add tags to make them easy to identify, plus discover how to listen to them from your PC or phone. Let’s get storytelling…
Set up your Audiobook library
There are three principal places to source audiobooks: on CD, with unabridged editions spanning dozens of discs; from an online vendor (the obvious example being Audible); and finally, from free websites where classic books – namely, those now out of copyright – have been narrated by volunteers can be found.
One of the best sources of free audiobooks is LibriVox (www. librivox.org). When you find a title you like, choose the ‘Whole book (zip file)’ option to download the book as a series of MP3 files, one per chapter. Each file is tagged with author, title and other key details, and you can also download cover art from here to illustrate the book in your library – more on tagging and artwork later.
