Do you like books but really really wish you could read them while driving? Are those other motorists getting annoyed when you try to do so? If you answered yes, then it might be time to try audiobooks.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of audiobooks, but I do enjoy listening to them on my commute. Anyhow, I discovered this wonderful way of getting a free audiobook every month.
What It Is: ChristianAudio.com offers a different free audiobook each month on their site. I’ve downloaded such awesome titles as Desiring God by John Piper, Stuff Christians Like by Jon Acuff, Crazy Love and Forgotten God by Francis Chan and The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns in the past few months. Really, there are some GREAT Christian books available each month.
Where You Can Get It: You can get it by going to http://christianaudio.com/free_download.php. Don’t forget to enter the code they give you during checkout.
This month’s book is The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer. (See, I told you there’s good stuff!)
What I Use It For: Mostly listening in my car. I’m lucky enough to have an aux jack in my car that I can plug my iPod into, but you could always burn them to a CD as well. Now, I would always prefer to have the dead-tree version of the book, but hey, the audio is free and I can listen to them in my car.
Awesomeness Scale: 5 out of 10. When you get a good one, it’s a 10 out of 10, but sometimes you have to wait a few months for a book you want. Anyhow, there’s lots of good stuff here, and it’s free!
I go through phases where I love listening to audiobooks! I have found some pretty great ones on ChristianAudio.com, but the place I get most of mine is http://librivox.org/
The site has recordings by volunteers of books in the public domain. Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes the reader isn’t as good, but overall it’s usually good quality or you can go back to try to find the same chapter by read by someone else sometimes.
Awesome resource! I’ve heard of that before but never checked it out. Thanks!