Downloading books and audiobooks can be a more demanding adventure than usual due to various factors, including sites that disappear, and the ever-present broken link nightmare. However, if you have the specific goal of downloading audiobooks in Spanish, you'll find a solid reference point in LibriVox, a portal dedicated to distributing free public domain audiobooks.
Don't give up! Downloading free books on the Internet may seem complicated at first, but there are plenty of resources to explore. A couple of years ago we shared a list of the best sites to download ebooks for free, and all the links are still valid. From Amazon itself to more advanced initiatives like Project Gutenberg, you'll find classic and modern titles alike, technical manuals, and much more.
Now, what about audiobooks? Their popularity is not as widespread, but there are many people out there who don't hesitate to "play" an audiobook either to replace the radio or simply for company, and we also can't forget those who have suffered some kind of damage to their eyes. If the idea of downloading audiobooks in Spanish appeals to you, all you have to do is go to the LibriVox portal and start searching.
Download more than 700 audiobooks in Spanish with LibriVox
We start with good news: LibriVox does not require creating an account to download audiobooks in Spanish. You can try its internal search engine, or manually explore the category assigned to our language, with a total of 717 books at the time of writing. By far, most of the material is in English with more than 32,000 titles, but there are also audiobooks in French, German, Italian, Russian, and even Japanese.
When browsing the LibriVox catalog, the classics quickly appear. Julio Verne, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells… all those authors that remain pending for one reason or another have an audiobook you can download immediately. The audiobooks are in MP3 format, guaranteeing compatibility with any device, and from what we've seen so far, LibriVox uses archive.org as a mirror.
The alternatives to direct download are using BitTorrent, or listening to the audiobooks on the LibriVox site itself, but the most comfortable is undoubtedly offline playback. Finally, LibriVox warns that the audiobooks are in the public domain under US law, so other titles in the same condition may be missing. One of the most cited examples is "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which has a chaotic legal situation, and is not available on LibriVox.
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