I use a vendor named Chirp. Audiobooks are downloaded as MP3s. My library offers the same service through an app called Libby. But Libby wants her books back after 3 weeks! We always bluetooth them from my phone in the car–music puts me to sleep!
Added edit: I have a stack of CDs about 15 cm high, all audiobooks in MP3–offered free.
That’s it @berninghausen (my brain went blank while typing and could not remember my other one)!
And I also use Libby from my library. Of course, that is US-based. But the 3 week thing is kind of a pain. Sometimes I check out one and then do not have time to read it till the end of that period and it goes bye bye!
Sheila
Yes, the larger State libraries in Australia can get inter-library loans. Not sure about local council libraries.
Brings back memories. When we were engaged, I was working 900 miles distant at a remote inland research station. I still have all the letters.
I don’t have the attention span to listen to audiobooks, or even “podcasts”…
I guess I’m way more visual than aurally aware…
I have the same trouble. My difficulty extends to videos and lectures. The only medium that works for me is print. It is something to do with being mentally slow and hard of hearing.
Lot depends on the speaker and of course the subject.
Think my last and only audio book must be 30 years ago with #hitch hikers guide to the galaxy# but cannot remember who the guy was talking, only managed half of it.
For a road trip prefer music on the radio cannot stand the chatter as cannot concentrate on driving and trying to follow the story.
Watched a few TED talks but again dont always get to the end.
Never tried a podcast as I look at the speaker and think NO !
This is clearly beyond my concentration capabilities. 
I dont think I could cope either.
My wife likes the car radio when long distance driving… claims it keeps her awake.
I prefer silence.
Phone while driving is illegal in Australia. I would expect if audio books became popular they would ban that too.
If my wife drive her car she insists on french radio, which is either publicity more publicity then chatter, plus a very occasional song. Or she chooses talk radio which is yet more publicity and then verbal Diarrhea by people who think they are important… only driving it does for me is mad !
Even if I speak some French as well, I’m suffering all these French machine guns whenever I’m driving along your site on my way to Spain. But I’m happy there is radio nostalgie, which is more suitable for my ears. 
I’ve always preferred physical books myself. I have a subscription to a certain quarterly magazine, and although it’s a lifetime subscription that allows for both the physical copy mailed to me and the digital copy online, I have never used the digital copy. Electronics break, batteries die… I guess I just feel safer with an actual copy of a book in my hand. That being said, it IS nice to have a PDF/mobile version of a very large book like a dictionary.
Thats is ok, but they have a very limited play list and tend to repeat on a regular basis
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Thank you Paul! I just signed up for one of those lifetime memberships - and Abhishek had to reach out to me since I’d never even created a free account. So I figure it’s time to start participating. I appreciate the warm welcome sir!
Actually - have listened to a WHOLE audiobook once - in 1975 my first year of high school, the school library had audiobooks on cassette - so I borrowed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and listened to the whole thing…
On something like this in my bedroom after dinner 
I couldn’t do that these days…
Man - that was a HALF CENTURY AGO!
A few weeks back, sadly a friend died, his wife asked me to go through his electronics stuff and keep or scrap the items I found… in the workshop was an old cassette player just like your photo, with the leads to connect it to a computer, he used to write programs in basic and stored them on cassette tapes using this recorder. Those were the days, or not !
I bought one of these style cassette decks in 1984 to do the same thing - save BASIC programs written on a Tandy TRS-80 (AKA Trash 80) - also bought a few games on cassette for it… Man that was slow… Much preferred cartridge slot games…
Turn off your the internet on your device until you’re done with the book - it can’t auto-return it if it’s not connected (at least, it works on that way on mine with Libby).
Don’t pay for data. Read the book–or play the audio book–then turn the data back on to return it. That’s how I can have three cell lines sharing 1G of data for 20 bucks a month.
