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Talking Books

Information about our talking books collections and audiobook download services.

Updated: 8/05/2017 3:17 p.m.

Listen to your favourite books

Talking books (or audiobooks) are audio versions of fiction and non fiction printed books.
Our collection includes titles for adults, teens and children in CD, MP3 and Playaway formats.
They are primarily full length with quality reading and recording.

Listen to your favourite books while travelling, relaxing or doing the chores around the house.

Talking books are available to everyone at no charge.

Browse Talking Books

New Talking Books

Short Stories

Free audiobook streaming and download services

You can download contemporary fiction and non fiction audiobooks directly onto your computer or mobile devices through BorrowBox and Nove-L (OverDrive) websites or stream them from AudioBookCloud website.

Once you are set up with free software downloads, all you need is internet access and your library card number to get audiobooks anywhere at anytime.

Resources

Free audiobook download websites

Sync Audiobooks for Teens

Sync is a free audiobook programme for teens 13+.

Every week 2 complete audiobooks can be downloaded through the OverDrive app and kept for free.

Sync runs from 27 April until 16 August 2017.

More information:

Sync for Teens

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