Listen to human-narrated audiobooks on a Windows computer

Listen to books in MP3 format with Windows Media Player or Groove Music (default media player)

  1. Set your download preference to MP3 audio
  2. Download a book from our human-narrated audio reading list in “audio” format.
  3.  Audiobooks take a bit longer to prepare to download, so if the status of the book indicates “In Progress” you may need to wait a few minutes to a few hours before you can save it to your computer.
  4. The book will show as “Available” when it is ready to download. Select the “Available” link to download the file to your computer.
  5. Locate the zipped file for the book in the Downloads folder for your computer, extract all files, and save them to the Music folder on your computer.
  6. You can now find and play the files in either Windows Media Player, or Groove Music. If the book is particularly long, it might have been broken up into multiple “albums.” You can create a playlist in either program and add all the albums for your book in order to listen all the way through more easily.

 Listen to books in DAISY with Thorium

  1. Set your download preference to DAISY audio.
  2. Download a book from our human-narrated audio reading list in “audio” format.
  3. Open Thorium and click on the “import a publication” button that looks like a plus icon from the bookshelf menu.
  4. Select the zipped file for the book and then click “open.” There is no need to unzip the file separately.
  5. The title will appear in the “my books” section and you can open it and click the “Play readaloud” button to begin listening.

 

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