If you have a portable digital media play, you probably received a free trial that lets you download audiobooks provided that you create an 30-day free trial account with a third party service. At the end of the free trial you have to pay the service to continue downloading audiobooks. In this blog post I have listed a few sites that allow users to download free audiobooks and ebooks without signing up for an account.
http://firefighters.org/
-Offers the entire bible in King James Version mp3 format, The recordings are split up by book, subject, readers and more
http://Librivox.org
-Offers a large library of audiobooks read by volunteers. There goal is to read every book in the public domain. All recordings are free and easy to download.
http://openlibrary.org/
-Offers over 1,000,000 free ebooks which can be read in pdf,Plain text, DAISY,ePub, DjVu streaming, MOBI,or sent to Kindle. While you don't have to sign up for an account to use the service, If you decide to you will have access to the worldcat library system, which will allow you to check out physical books in a participating library nearest you.
Project Gutenberg
-Offers 33,000+ ebooks that are free for download
Your local library
Many libraries have online programs that will allow patrons to download free materials
Kelli J. Lee
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