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Free Classic Audiobooks @ Google Play Store

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If the ‘Free audiobook’ button is greyed out when you attempt to purchase, please change the very last part of the URL from ‘Uk’ to ‘Au’ and you should be good to go. Enjoy :)

Classic books are now available as auto-narrated audiobooks - for free. Whether you’re a fan of fiction or nonfiction, there’s something for everyone to experience with this new technology.

Fiction

  • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Dracula
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Frankenstein
  • The War of the Worlds
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

Nonfiction

  • The Prince
  • The Modest Proposal
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave
  • Common Sense
  • On the Origin of Species
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Walden
  • Beyond Good and Evil
  • Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • The Art of War

Found via HUKD.

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Comments

  • Thanks TA, you rock!

    • Are they recorded Human Voices or Synthesized?

      • Sadly synthesized, but it's free mate, have to give in somewhere.

  • +1

    is it permanently free or temporary?

    • +1

      They out of copyright and look like auto narrated, so look like permanently?

      "Classic books are now available as auto-narrated audiobooks – for free."

      • +4

        as in machine generated voice? Siri? Yuck.

        • Punkindrublic below says they sound ok 🤷‍♂️
          Google not Apple so won't be siri :)

          • +5

            @Gandalf the Thrifty: Yes but can’t stand machine generated audio .. I skip the videos on YouTube that have machine voice

            • @naru6705: i do the same. The machine voice sounds almost natural, but that just gives it uncanny valley.

  • +4

    I assumed the narration would be some sort of monotone Stephen Hawking-esque effort, but I had a listen to The Prince and 'Mary' has a bit more inflection and tonal range than I expected!

  • Cannot buy, when I change the url the page gives me an error. NVM got it bought via the app.

  • +4

    https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/H_G_Wells_T…

    Ai narration . We don't listen to your kind here.

  • +6

    If it's a computer reading to you, why not just use text to speech where you can choose the speed?; Can you choose the speed of these?

    • +1

      You can change the speed.

  • +6

    Shame 1984 isn't on that list.

  • +1

    thank you heaps! love google audiobooks when I am driving/travelling/commuting/drinking/trying to fall asleep. got a couple today!

  • thank you OP!

  • Common Sense

    I held out hope for people, obviously real common sense always comes with a price.

  • +1

    no-robo aud-io for me-no.

  • +1

    Wonderful, thanks so much OP, I will love these!

  • +1

    Thank you OP

  • This is a true gift! Thank you Google and to the original poster for this!

  • Good find op

  • +2

    Another source of free audio books to borrow may be your local library. Mine uses LIBBY and BORROW BOX apps and your library membership number and your birth date to log into hundreds of books. Quality audio and can change speed too. Check your local municipal library.

  • +2

    I got "Something went wrong. Item not found".
    Pressing the green Try Again button doesn't work either. I guess I'll try looking each one up individually then.

  • Thanks. Appreciate your post

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