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How to Get Your Audio Book on Your Android

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One of the things I like to do when I have to drive long distances is listen to audio books. It gives my mind something to do while my eyeballs focus on keeping the car on the road, and a downloaded file will not fritz out in the middle of nowhere, unlike radio stations. You can get audio books on tape or CD, but they're bulky and a bit of a pain to manage. Why not listen to them on your phone? If your car doesn't have an axillary audio jack or Bluetooth for plugging into your phone, you can get a mini FM adapter or a cassette tape adapter. If all else fails, you can use a portable mini stereo. It's good in a pinch in a car with a broken radio.

My friend skips the driving bit and listens to audio books when he goes jogging. It takes his mind off the physical task.
Ok, so we love audio books. How do you get those audio books into your phone?  A number of ways, depending on the quality you desire and the amount you're willing to spend.

Audible.com and Other Audio Book Clubs

Amazon-owned Audible.com is probably the most popular commercial option. With 100,000 professionally voiced audio books, they've got a great selection, and you can transfer your books from device to device, including non-Android devices. It's convenience that costs you in other ways. The books are protected by DRM, and you're restricted from using non-Audible apps or downloading the file to too many devices at once.

Still, if you're an audio book buff, the quality is good, and the selection is fantastic. Prices start at $7.49 per month (for the first three months - $14.95 after that) for one book download per month. The pricing is similar for other audio book clubs, but Audible.com has by far the biggest selection.

Amazon Whispersync

Amazon has a program that allows you to buy the audio book version of an e-book for a discount and then syncs your bookmark between the two formats. So if you're in chapter 2 of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe e-book, you're in chapter 2 in audio book. This is fantastic if you like to listen to books in the car and then read them over lunch. Both Whispersync and Audible-purchased audio books will play in the Audible app.

Buy Individually

Other book stores, such as Barnes & Noble, offer direct sales of audio books. If you want to read popular titles, you're probably better off going with the book club pricing. However, you can shop around and find books cheaper than the $14.95 monthly fee you'd be paying for Audible.com. On top of that, most of these are sold as MP3 files. That's a standard audio file format that you could play back in just about any MP3 playing app, including Google Play Music or Amazon Cloud Player.
Plenty of other independent book publishers and stores have started selling audio books in this format.

Get Them for Free

Before we go any further, I'm not suggesting piracy here. You can get legitimate, free audio books for public domain works. Yes, that means the books are usually pretty old, but who doesn't need to bone up on some Dickens or learn that the shoes should actually have been silver in the Wizard of Oz? It's a great chance to review the classics.
There are plenty of legitimate sources for free audio books, mostly read by volunteers in order to make the books more accessible to everyone, including the visually impaired. You can also get many players for audio books, but my current favorite is the LibriVox Audio Book Player, because browsing for and downloading titles is already integrated into the app. You don't have to download your MP3 file from some other source and then side-load it into your device.
If you're fine with side-loading your books into your MP3 app, you can also check out Books Should Be Free for public domain audio and eBooks.

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