After our system upgrade that happened early this week, our audio book download site, Overdrive, is not working with our patrons. People are working right now to get this corrected, so hopefully it will be back up and running in the next day or so. Until then, I can point you to two different websites that offer free, legal audiobooks for download.
Open Culture
Open culture scans the web for available audio book downloads and centralizes them. There are a lot of popular books on this site from Issac Asimov to William Butler Yates.
Librivox
Librivox is a fantastic project that pairs public domain materials with willing readers and posts the results free for you to download and listen to. The selection on this site is amazing, so be sure to check it out.
We'll let you know as soon as Overdrive is back up and running, but until then, you should have enough listening material to keep you busy from these two, outstanding resources.
*Update - 2:30 pm* It looks like Overdrive is back up and running. Thanks to everyone who worked to get this service going as quickly as possible. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a look at the other audio book services as well!
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