How to download audiobooks to your tablet or smartphone

1. How to download audiobooks using applications

Paid Apps

The most convenient way to download books is through paid apps with legal content. It's simple, fast, and there are plenty to choose from: in each such program, thousands of books are available. To download a work, you just need to find it inside the program and click on the download button. In the applications "Listen to Audiobooks" and "Google Play Books", each audiobook is purchased separately, the rest of the programs offer the user all the books at once for the period paid by him.

Storytel: more than 5,000 audiobooks at a price of 449 rubles per month, the first 14 days are free

"Audiobooks Sounds of Words": more than 6,000 audiobooks at the price of 459 rubles per month, the first 7 days are free

Bookmate: 459 rubles per month, the first 7 days are free

Listen to Audiobooks: Over 6,000 audiobooks at various unit prices

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Google Play Books: Large selection of books at different unit prices

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Free Apps

There are also applications in which audiobooks are available not only legally, but also for free. Thus, the Bibe.ru program and the mobile clients of the LibriVox online library allow you to download and listen to books that have become public domain. These are classics, well-read in Russian and other languages, or works of contemporaries, available with the permission of the authors. Alas, the content in these applications is much less than in the ones mentioned above.

By the way, the Listen to Audiobooks program also has a section with free works, but you can't find potential hits and bestsellers in it.

But there are plenty of free audiobooks on Telegram, torrent trackers and YouTube. Finding books using these services is more difficult, but this way you can access books that are not available for sale. For example, to old works read by excellent Soviet actors.

You can download audio files from Telegram directly in the official application. To download from trackers, you just need to install a convenient torrent client. There is also a way to save audio from YouTube. But all of these options are only suitable for Android, especially when the device has a good audiobook player.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, you will have to use a computer to download audiobooks from the web.

2. How to download audiobooks from computer

Let's say you saved an audiobook purchased as a disc or downloaded from the Web on your computer, and now you want to download it to your mobile device. To copy audio files to an Android device, you just need to send them via Telegram or use any cloud storage.

But to download an audiobook from a computer to an iPhone or iPad, you need iTunes and a few non-trivial steps.

1. Connect your mobile device to your computer and launch iTunes if it does not open on its own.

2. If your audiobook is in M4B format, drag it to the iTunes window and go directly to the eighth step. If the format is MP3 (most likely it is), follow these steps in order.

3. Select the Music section above the iTunes sidebar, and the Library section on the right side of the window.

4. Open the audiobook folder on your computer.

5. If you have Windows, select all audiobook files, right-click and select "Properties". In the next window, uncheck the "Read Only" box and click OK.

6. Drag the audiobook to the iTunes window - it will appear as a music album.

7. Right click on the audiobook in iTunes. Select Album Info → Options → Music. Change the "Metadata Type" to "Audiobook" and click OK.

8. Above the sidebar, select the "Audiobooks" section: if you did everything correctly, your audiobook will be displayed on the right side of the window.

nine. Above the sidebar, click on the mobile device icon, and then select “Audiobooks” from the panel itself. After that, sync the added audiobook with your mobile device by marking it and clicking Done at the bottom of the window.