

This website sells just audiobooks and there are hundreds of titles to choose from. However, you do not have the option of downloading mp3 format files of the same, not even through Flyte. We spotted over 7,000 titles on the site. For titles with both options available, the digital download seems to be a bit cheaper.īeing India's most popular online book store, Flipkart has a long list of audio books on sale. However, the download option is not available for all titles, while some don't have the CD option. Though Reado is still adding more titles, this is the only website in India that lets you download a digital format now. A majority of the titles on these websites are books which are no longer bound by copyright laws. A lot of classics and research books are available for free download and usage on open source websites like, and. Even online book stores deal mostly in CDs and don't offer the option of digital downloads. Since they are still not so popular in India, most stores don't stock up on a variety of titles.

Most online book stores in India have a decent collection of audio books, though the same cannot be said about actual book stores. Yes, audio books do tend to be a bit more expensive than the paper versions. Audiobooks are available in either physical format - mostly as a CD, or audio cassettes - or in digital format where you can download it as an MP3 file. The latter tends to be a bit boring, especially in the case of fiction. There are audio books which are recorded with different voices for all the characters or as a simple, maybe animated, reading of the same by either the author or someone else. In fact, the first audio books were made for the visually impaired in the 1930s. They can either be full reading of the text or a concise form of the book in audio format. Instead of listening to your favourite playlists over and over again, why not listen to that book you have been wanting to read for long?Īudiobooks, as the name suggests, are audio versions of a book. But audiobooks are an amazing way to use up your idle time, like those long drives back home from work or early morning jogs.

Yes, we all know about audiobooks, though we tend to dismiss them as an option that is better for children. But there is a shortcut to reading books, and that is hearing them read. As the number of unread books pile up in our homes, many of us have started making new year resolutions to somehow find the time to read these.
