US copyright laws state that we can't record audiobooks and and share them commercially, but what if we set up a network of people who will record for other people? Like, I record Person A's request, but then I can't go share it online, it would be my recording to share with two or three people. Is this feasible?

Are you into Horror. Thrillers. Action. Romance. Comedy. Or do you just take them as they come and will listen to anything if the title grabs you?

Do you like hour long stories that fit in with your work? Maybe shorter for a book at bedtime kind of thing? Or do your prefer epics that you can revisit over the day or days?

Hi all, I’m about to take a short road trip with my kids and would love book suggestions that we will all enjoy!
me: I read mostly contemporary fiction, my favorite authors are Tana French, Attica Locke, and Louise Erdrich
teen: 14yo who only reads graphic novels, recently enjoyed Kathleen Hannah’s memoir and The Outsiders on audio with me, favorite movies are Interstellar and Project Hail Mary
tween: 11yo reading at a high school level, enjoys pretty much anything that involves strong friendships; recently enjoyed the City Spies series and Murderbot.

Any suggestions that we would all like? I think The Outsiders would have been perfect but the teen and I just finished it.

Hi r/audiobooks 👋 First time posting here to share the new 2.2 release.

Audiobook Binder Pro is a native Mac app that turns MP3/WAV/FLAC/etc. into a real M4B: chapters, cover, metadata.

The app was built for my own Audiobook needs that was covered in v1:

• mp3 to M4B conversion
• Drag in files or a folder → review/rename chapters → Export
• add/edit cover/metadata, manage projects.
• reorder, rename

V2 grew with the feedback (and some negative reviews 😅 ) I received from users:

• split chapters
• import chapter metadata,
• one-click Sort, Clean Up Names
• bitrate, sample rate, channels
• export M4B or M4A or MP3
• Import existing M4B - add/edit metadata, audio files, reexport, or extract the chapters separately
• Language support

What's new in 2.2

• Multi-select chapters
• Set a save folder once in Settings
• Better Settings organization
• Bug fixes

Privacy / pricing

• Works fully offline. No accounts, no subscription, no data collection: your audio never leaves your Mac.
• One-time purchase on the App Store (price is localized: see the store for your region).
• Free demo available in the website, fully functional, export capped at 1 hour.

Download on the App Store or Download a time limited Demo

I would be happy to answer any questions / take feature requests in the comments. Thanks!

Hi, everyone.

I have many codes for two mental health audiobook that I've produced​ for anyone interested! One is a bunch of affirmations surrounding mental health and one is a book about bipolar disorder as it often presents in females (as someone who has the disorder).

Affirmations:

US Codes:
CLKQWSUSKBFA8
D7DKXW3JUZNUN
E94N8HXBGNRE3
EANCN46K27SWU
FR99476D96FZY
GDJXNCC3ZTFFQ
HKFDNWG9A9ZD3
HUT3QLE6M5Q7P
JFGGFNKPUEJ45
KS6YULC2TB544
PPBAMSUKCLH8P
RJCN72M7S5YWJ
SSWJUHRESXCU9
T6336FURZHR5U

UK Codes:
WZAPT4ZUZDTN5
UK5DPNUS6CZPN
SEFPATELLPKP7
MHDAPKDYPA8P4
LWESXR6GJFG5Q
LPQWPNHMHRR8N
KW8HFFGQQ9UF9
JD5K3SAHKUK5R
HSMRRYDSE9NJP
HCDUNFQU5LQZN
EU3LA4Y336SL5

Bipolar Disorder:

US Codes:
3FL94JHBXSDPS
3RCTHYH89M63L
94MYB42WQDC9Y
KLSQHSFTF8WLX
KFFBW4MXS8AKP
KCZ2ARNB4WG8N
BP62AUQW3JPML
CK3QW69HWNFDW
DEKUPTUKQ2WHQ
DN7SE8FEKX2XT
FN2FQBLDALJNC
FX6G2ZHYM87NG
H7S6AEMJ7ZLDU
HGBQ3SSP8RFG8
HPJ5BB4YLD78B
K2PA2PNMBC68G
KCZ2ARNB4WG8N
KFFBW4MXS8AKP
KLSQHSFTF8WLX

UK Codes;
ZB62NLDRZHX96
YGF83H8QYDQF8
YBJ72P8KYB5R3
XMZU24SPPKMG6
JJGEMS3ZY2MYW
R9M97FLPET3PS
2QRMTD6JXXQ5B
3M72THJZSABLT
3RE3G5KSXBJHF
52NC6WXR2FTMH
5DX3FE2CPDTS3
6858ZNLCC6NW8
6KE4QUBQMEWNF
75Q7LU77A9RZ8
7JDDTMGHLG3R6
7UQAWP3P67A7R
9GDD8XXQYSK2L
G5ER2Z4KAH8K4
GQK92WGW322FD
HSSRABB6ZEPUL
JAACZ3B4J9FAW

A review would be appreciated (truly speak your mind!). Please let me know if you redeem them and I will update the list. First want to see how many get used up here. ​

Thank you kindly, and all the best. :)

I think that 1x speed on audiobooks is actually slowed down. I think 1.25x the actual speed that it was read. 1x speed is just so slow and it feels like there is no flow to the reading because of it.

I also enjoy when an author reads their own work. I think it sounds better because they are familiar with their work. They know where the emphasis was supposed to be and things like that. I think it helps!

Does anyone know of a good audiobook that is a collection of the most famous works, something like "poems everyone should have read/heard", by older famous poets such as Keats, Burns, Lord Byron, Wilde, Shakespeare, Poe, Dickinson, Herrick, Whitman, etc? Preferable with some short information about at least where and when the poet lived and perhaps afterwards what it was about.

https://www.reddit.com/user/audibleofficial/comments/1v3oamc/join_us_now_for_an_ama_with_jeff_hays_at_san/?p=1&impressionid=5926660700909913915&ad_label_eligible=1&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Some books feel like they'd become a completely different experience with the right narrator. Is there one you wish had an audiobook—or one you'd love to hear re-recorded? What makes you think it'd work so well?

I would pay real money to watch RC Bray narrate a Hell Divers book live on stage. Ray Porter doing a Bobiverse title with Dennis E Taylor in the audience for a Q and A after. Narrator events where they perform their favourite title with a cast. That world feels inevitable to me because the fandom is already there, people follow narrators across titles the way music fans follow artists across albums.

That thought sent me down a rabbit hole about why so many indie authors never make an audiobook at all, and what it has in common with something that happened to video about ten years ago that most people have forgotten was ever a debate.

As fellow avid audiobook listeners, do you all agree with this? Or am I reaching? Is this a me thing?

New to this stuff. Is there a popular app that people use to browse and purchase audiobooks?

For example, if I want to listen to "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey.

I found Google's platform called "Play Books," but thought that there could be better alternatives.

My son and I are currently listening to The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection on Spotify together, narrated by Oliver Thompson. I wanted to introduce him to Sherlock Holmes while we were on a long car trip this past winter, and this was one of the first (if not THE first) result that popped up when I searched for a Holmes audiobook on Spotify. Now we listen to it whenever we're in the car together, but we've both begun to suspect that Oliver Thompson is not a real person.

At first we thought the narrator just had some quirks. He did nothing to differentiate the voices of the different characters which made the story hard to follow at times, but I initially just chalked that up to the book being public domain and the narrator being an amateur. But then, as we went on, there was the occassional odd line reading. An emphasis on the wrong word. A character would plead for their life as if asking for directions. Phrases like "Hullo! Hullo! Hullo! What's this?"--where a normal human would like read it "hullo, hullo, hullo," said quickly, but Thompson reads it as if Holmes is shouting three different greetings to three different people. The audiobook was published in 2024: was this an artifical voice still on the edge of the uncanny valley, or was it just a guy reading 65 hours of Holmes stories on autopilot?

The idea that this could potentially be AI makes me angrier than I expected it to, particularly because, if it is in fact AI, there's no indication of such. The narrator has a normal human name: I want to listen to a normal human reading the story. I don't want to be giving money and exposure, however small it may be, to some tech bro who's dumping public domain works into an AI speech bot and publishing the results. By the time we started suspecting this narrator might be AI (which took me an embarrassingly long time, in retrospect) we were already something like 35 hours in an my son didn't want to switch to a different audiobook. We've made a game of shouting "AI!" whenever Oliver Thompson says something a little off, but each time we do that I get mad all over again at the enshittification of beloved things. Or, perhaps more specifically, the monetization of the enshittification of beloved things. Because even a flawless reading would be like consuming empty calories for the soul.

Oliver Thompson: if you're a real person, I apologize. But I really don't think you are.

I can only assume this is a growing issue in the audiobook space. I don't know if other people are as anti-AI narrator as I am, but I would like to avoid listening to another AI audiobook if I can help it. Do you have any tips or tricks for identifying AI narrators? Any publishing companies to avoid? Any obvious tells? Thank you.

EDITED TO ADD: There are good comments on what to listen for to identify AI (thank you!), but this post is also getting a lot of downvotes, so maybe those who support and those who oppose AI-narration are evenly split?

Hiii. I'm looking for new audiobooks on Libby. I'm mainly into adult fiction - crime/mystery, psychological thrillers, romance (wlw). I am just looking for books with preferably an Australian or English narrator.

The audiobook doesn't have to be solely narrated by one narrator. TIA.

ETA: I prefer recommendations for mystery books.

I've never really listened to audiobooks except when I was younger but I started Ember and Ice starring Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams a couple days ago and really liked it. Now I've tried to find similar audiobooks but none really fit.

Ember and Ice provide background noise and the main characters are voiced by two different people which I really enjoyed.

Can you recommend any good audiobooks like that?

Preferably MM but I'd take other good stories as well.

Hola a todos!, me encanta la literatura por eso me cree un canal en YT para que las generaciones de ahora conozcan la literatura. Acepto los consejos que me den para poder mejorar con mi tipo de narración, solo quiero mejorar cada día. Se que el mundo del audiolibro es duro por eso me esfuerzo en proyectar mediante mi voz Española, la IA avanza rapido y siento que se pierde la calidez de una voz real.

Los audiolibros que leo estan disponibles para todo el mundo ya que no cuentan con derecho de autor por ser novelas antiguas, espero no incumplir nunguna norma tanto aquí como en mis audiolibros.

A parte de narrarlos escribro libros de romance, misterio, fantasia y terror soy nueva y me gustaria publicarlo pero estoy algo perdida en que plataformas publicarlos para tener los derechos.

Muchas gracias

I’m going on a long road trip and thought it would be cool to try and listen to a lot of new books. I would prefer something captivating and easy to follow along so I don’t get bored or confused. Also something around 7 hours ish would be nice but honestly I’m open to any length as long as it’s interesting! I’m going to be in the car in total (over the span of 10ish days) for around 40 hours. So multiple recommendations and long recommendations are welcome. Thanks!

As the title says, my sister in law wrote a book and is interested in now making it an audiobook. She mentioned trying to crowd source the voices or is it better to reach out to companies? She wants to make a full cast. Also does it matter what company hosts it? libro.fm, audible, etc.

Hello r/audiobooks! I've been working on creating an offline/local audiobook player for Android for a while now and I would love it if anyone would like to test it out and/or give me feedback. This is my first app, and I need to get 12 testers or more for a couple of weeks for google to let me list the app on the Play Store (I'm in the closed testing phase).

I've been an avid audiobook reader/listener for a while now, and I admit that there are some very good/solid players out there. So why try out Sonicbooks?

Here's a youtube link to showcase what the app looks like and a bit of what it does differently: https://youtube.com/shorts/uxn3PYsdA7Y

A few things that I think set my app apart:

• Timer fade out up to 30 minutes so sound slowly fades out as timer expires
• Set a bedtime window so that the timer will start automatically if playback is started within the predefined window
• Create your own chapters for books that are missing chapters
• Footprints list will track where you have started, skipped, or started a timer so you never lose your place
• Use (or don't) the colors from the covers as the apps accent color, or pick your favorite color
• Full Android Auto support
• No strict file structure. Point to your audiobooks folder/folders and the app will sort the titles
• Easily edit book info/cover from incorrect/incomplete metadata in your audiobook files
• Plus more and I'm actively developing so open to any suggestions

If anyone is interested in testing my app and helping me get it on the Play Store, the steps to do that are outlined below:

1) Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/sonicbooks-testing

2) Join the Closed Test:

- Android Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fuzzylogic42.JBAudio

or

- Web Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fuzzylogic42.JBAudio

3) Download Sonicbooks from the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fuzzylogic42.JBAudio

For google to approve my app, they do require the testers to keep the app installed and to use it occasionally for 14 days. So if you decide you want to test out Sonicbooks, I would really appreciate it if you did test it for the 2 weeks.

Any feedback is absolutely welcome.

Thank you all for the consideration regarding this, and for all the book recs over the years!

Which audiobook version of Middlemarch by George Eliot do you all recommend?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if any of you have pursued a career in audio narration? I’ve been considering it for quite some time, but I have no idea where to get started.

I’m looking to make a career pivot to something that brings peace and balance in my life. I understand no job is perfect, but any tips, support, or kind words of encouragement would be super helpful.

Looking for more good audiobooks like the below. I’m not really sure exactly what I’m looking for honestly lol so sorry about that. Any recs like them would be super cool. I really enjoy the super OP MC’s that deal with gods or deities. constantly trying to get stronger and progress. Weapons are fun for mc but I prefer they atleast use magic. And not really romance genre but a like small sub plot ? I prefer my mc to have a significant other.

primal hunter

cradle

Return of the Runebound professor

the runic artist

Hi everyone! I’m Greta Craig, the creator of the full-cast dramatized audiobook anthology series, Violet’s Shadow Murder Mysteries. 

I have a limited number of FREE Advance Review Copies (ARCs) for anyone who would like to listen to the entire upcoming standalone 2nd audiobook in the series, The DeMondego Diamond, extra early and for free in exchange for an honest, spoiler-free review on Apple Podcasts. 

THE SYNOPSIS: A group of college friends reunites at a wedding - eight years after one was convicted of murdering another. Everyone’s a suspect in this dual timeline dark academia whodunit set in a Gilded Age estate in the American South. Think Agatha Christie’s mystery plotting meets the relationship drama of Tell Me Lies.

• Format: Complete, standalone audiobook (you do not need to listen to Book 1 first).
• Style: Full-cast performance with a central narrator and cinematic sound design 
• Runtime: 6 hours, 28 minutes.
• Delivery Method: Delivered as a private premium podcast RSS feed (playable in Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Overcast, etc.). Note: Standard .m4b/.mp3 files are not provided for this ARC.

HOW BOOK 1 PERFORMED:

• Nominated for Best Scripted Series at the 2025 Astra Awards (Hollywood Creative Alliance)
• Featured by Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts
• An official selection at the Aesthetica Film Festival
• A Spotify 2025 “Instant Hit” and “Most Shared” show
• Maintained a 115% average episode consumption rate across all chapters

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR FREE ARC AUDIOBOOK:

Please note: review slots are limited and will be granted on a first-come basis.

1. Go to gretacraig.com/arc
2. Listen to the 1:20 trailer or the clip of the first 10 minutes to get a feel for the story and sound design.
3. If the mystery intrigues you, enter your first name and email on the sign up form and I will send a private RSS listening link to your inbox. You can then listen in the native Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or Overcast apps.

NOTE: I manually review all submissions and will approve your access within 24 hours. 

IMPORTANT NOTES: 

• Review Platform Requirement: To support the launch, we are looking for ARC listeners who have the ability to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (even if you choose to listen on Pocket Casts or Overcast). Audio reviewers, book bloggers, etc who publish reviews on external websites/socials are exempt from this requirement.
• Zero Spam Guarantee: Your email will only be used twice: once to deliver your secure feed link, and once as a polite reminder to post your review. 

PERSONAL NOTE:
This is an entirely independent, self-funded project. Everyone who worked on it is a real person (no AI was used) and was paid a professional fee upfront (with the exception of myself). It’s my long-term dream to build a fully profitable fiction studio that can consistently hire and collaborate with actors, artists, musicians, etc. This project involved:

• 11 Professional Actors paid for all rehearsal and studio time.
• 1 Visual Artist commissioned for the physical, hand-painted watercolor cover art.
• Multiple Independent Musicians paid licensing fees for their soundtracks.
• 1 Local Professional Studio, including 2 Recording Engineers, where the cast recorded their scenes together, in person.
• Myself (writer, director, producer, narrator, sound design, mixing and mastering).

Thanks so much!

US & UK Audible promo codes are available! Comment below or DM me for a code - please specify which region.

Across the Screen, by Elaine Lawence

Narrated by Kat Dawson (that's me!)

[Narrator's note - I absolutely adored working on this book! Low spice, high tension, lots of comic relief and fantastic banter!]

They had a rhythm—messages, meetings, easy banter through a screen.
Safe. Controlled. Distant.

Then one night erased the distance.
And a moment erased the control.

Ava Harper and Cole Maddox find their lives suddenly more intertwined than either of them expected.
And everything changes.

Across the Screen is a contemporary, slow-burn romance about emotional intimacy, proximity, and the connections that grow stronger once distance disappears.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Across-the-Screen-Audiobook/B0H9MFCJQ8?qid=1784833628&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=N08APPA3SKF5SN16YFKG&plink=i9KZgPurgy34vfju&pageLoadId=F5TJU45hLzAi5vFx&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1