Online Audio Books

The advantage of selecting audio books online is the fact that you can listen to a segment of the recording before buying. Often a sample of five minutes or so is made available. Sufficient time normally to assess the content and importantly the narrator. That is the nearest thing to flicking through a physical book and reading front and back covers.

Audio files are usually made available MP3 or WMA formats which allows files to be played on PC's and Macs directly. Files can be transferred to a portable MP3 player such as the popular Apple iPod; or they can copied to CD in order to listen to them in a car or on a home stereo system.

Finding book suppliers is facilitated by any of the well known search engines such as Google.com, Yahoo.com and Msn.com. Specific audio book portals provide on site search options which allow author or title related searches and the option to browse between categories.