How to download an audiobook

An audiobook is simply a recording of a book that’s been read aloud, often by a well-known personality, which you can listen to rather than read. Audiobooks are especially useful for those unable to read visual text-based books.

 

Although audiobooks are available as CDs, we’ll concentrate here on downloading them from iTunes.

 

 

 

 

Step 1: Open iTunes and click on the arrow to the right of ‘Books’ in the top menu. A drop-down will appear. Click on Audiobooks.

 

 

Step 2: You can take a look through new and noteworthy books that Apple has highlighted on the Audiobooks page, browse through categories or take a look at the list of best-selling books.

 

If the book you are looking for isn’t on this page, you can type the title or author name into the search box in the top right-hand corner of the iTunes window, as we have here.

 

 

iTunes will now return all results from the store that match your search term. Make sure you pick the entry under the audiobooks subheading to ensure you don’t accidentally pick the text book instead.

 

 

Step 3: Click the Buy button next to the audiobook you would like to purchase. You will be prompted to enter your Apple ID and password. Once you have done this, your audiobook will start downloading.