Are you a young adult who enjoys listening to audiobooks?  Or an adult who enjoys listening to young adult (YA) audiobooks?  Or just someone with an interest in audiobooks?  Then let me tell you about a great program happening this summer. For the third year in a row, SYNC, sponsored by AudioFile, is offering two free audiobook downloads per week from May 30 to June 5, 2013.  The downloads consist of one current YA title thematically paired with a classic title.  These eAudiobooks are yours to keep and listen to whenever you want to.  Just visit this page every week starting Thursday, May 30, 2013 to download the two titles.

See the selections from SYNC for Summer 2013 below!

And if you can’t wait or you want to preview the offerings, you can always check out some version of each title from SJPL.  See the link after each for SJPL’s offerings.

May 30 – June 5, 2013
Of Poseidon by Anna Banks (SJPL)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (SJPL)

June 6 – June 12, 2013
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 1: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (SJPL)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (SJPL)

June 13 – June 19, 2013
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (SJPL)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (SJPL)

June 20 – June 26, 2013
Once by Morris Gleitzman (SJPL)
Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (SJPL)

June 27 – July 3, 2013
Rotters by Daniel Kraus (SJPL)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (SJPL)

July 4 – July 10, 2013
Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford (SJPL)
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (SJPL)

July 11 – July 17, 2013
The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann (SJPL)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (SJPL)

July 18 – July 24, 2013
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers (SJPL)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (SJPL)

July 25 – July 31, 2013
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (SJPL)
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (SJPL)

Aug 1 – Aug 7, 2013
Death Cloud by Andrew Lane (SJPL)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (SJPL)

Aug 8 – Aug 14, 2013
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis (SJPL)
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (SJPL)

Aug 15 – Aug 21, 2013
Sold by Patricia McCormick (SJPL)
Let Me Stand Alone by Rachel Corrie (SJPL)

There are some e-audiobooks that can be returned early:

• How to Return a Title with the Overdrive Mobile app for Android
   
• How to Return a Title with the Overdrive Mobile app for Windows Phone 7
   
• How to Return a Title with the Overdrive Mobile app for Blackberry
   
• How to Return MP3 audiobooks with the Overdrive Console for Windows
   
• How to Return a Title with the Overdrive Mobile app for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)

If your audiobook does not fall into the categories above, you will not be able to return it early. For example, WMA e-audiobooks cannot be returned early using the Overdrive Console.

If you have an iPhone, iTouch, or iPad, search for the FREE OneClickDigital app on the iTunes App store.  You do first have to visit our OneClickDigital site though to create your account, but you can then use the app to sign in to your account, access your checkouts, browse and check out new titles, and download directly to your device using the app. All titles in the collection will work with the app!

SJPL now boasts yet another new collection of online eBooks – the Gale Reference Virtual Library, which includes reference books (encyclopedias, history books) as well as travel books.

These reference titles are available for online viewing, for downloading as PDFs, and also downloading as eAudioBook in MP3 format. (You first have to click on a section/chapter to get all the printing, downloading, and listening options – there’s no way to print or download the entire title, unfortunately.)

The great news is that there’s no software required for downloading! Horray! Also, these titles are always available, so there are no waiting lists.

Please visit the collection from the downloads page at sjpl.org; the direct link is http://0-go.galegroup.com.catalog.sjlibrary.org/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=sjpllib

These titles are also included in the catalog.  

Did you know that all the titles in our new OneClickdigital collection of eAudioBooks are always available, with unlimited access? No more waiting in line for that popular audio book! And, all the titles will play on an iPod. New titles are added fairly regularly so check often. You do need to set up an account the first time you use the service.

There are a number of sites that offer eAudioBooks for free.

Books Should Be Free and LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.  

eJunto was created to bring historical and philosphical audiobooks to the public domain.

FreeClassicAudioBooks.com has a number of classics titles, and the site also takes requests.

What are your favorite resources for free eAudioBooks? Please share them in the comments!