AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOADS NOW AVAILABLE

Checkout and download popular and award winning audiobooks from the comfort of your home.

Now your library never closes!  With our new digital library, customers can browse, checkout, and download digital audiobooks anytime of day from anywhere in the world.  The new online service is available by visiting www.akronlibrary.org.

With over 2,000 exceptional titles to choose from, our online collection is sure to have something that fits your tastes.  From popular novels by Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, Dean Koontz, and Amy Tan; to the classic works of Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, even Homer — our audiobook collection spans nearly every genre.  The collection also includes children’s, educational titles, and a wide variety of non-fiction including business, history, and self-help.

Getting started is easy.  Just visit www.akronlibrary.org, sign up from our Web site, then browse our collection and select the titles you want.  When you’re ready, check out your materials and download the digital books to your home computer.  Once downloaded, you can transfer them to your portable device.  You may also be able to burn the audio books directly to CD.  When the lending period is up, your digital books are automatically returned — so there are never any late fees!   Although you cannot download digital audio onto a library computer inside the library, if you have a laptop with you when you visit the library, you can download the audio onto your laptop. 

Digital books are compatible with most home computers.  Download audiobooks (digital versions of traditional audio books on tape or CD) can be listened to on your PC or on portable WMA/MP3 players.  They do NOT work with iPods, however.  You can burn many of the audiobooks titles to CD and listen to them in the car or on any standard CD player.