Audiobooks

Listen to a wide selection of Audiobooks. [get it]
My rating 2/5, iTunes Store rating 2.5/5

Audiobooks is an iPhone interface to the Librivox service, Librivox offers a wide selection of audio books, read by volunteers, which are available for free download or as a podcast.

Audiobooks allows you to search through the Librivox catalogue and find information on the audiobooks it contains, it then allows you to stream the book to your iPhone. Internet connectivitiy is required for this application and you cannot download an audiobook to listen to off-line (there are paid apps, including a paid version of this app, that allow that).

Since it is not particularly difficult to visit Librivox and download the audiobooks to listen to on your iPod at your convenience, off-line, for free, the only significant value this app adds is its simple interface for browsing the catalogue and launcing a book immediately without the need to follow the process of downloading it, adding it to iTunes, and syncing it with your phone.

Because the readers are volunteers the quality of the audiobooks on Librivox varies and may fall a long way short of expectations. If you are always on a good Internet connection when you would want to listen to an audiobook this application may be for you, otherwise you might wish to search for podcasts of audiobooks in the iTunes app on your phone, and choose from a smaller selection of books which you can download directly, and listen to off-line, for free.

I have removed Audiobooks from my iPhone.