Classic Audiobooks: Read Along

Listen to the great classics and read along at the same time. Classic Audiobooks pairs LibriVox recordings, read by volunteers, with the book's text from Project Gutenberg and Aozora Bunko. The paragraph being read lights up and the page follows along. Great for extensive reading, English listening practice, commutes and bedtime. Long-press any word to save it with its sentence and its spot in the recording.

Every completed LibriVox book is here for free: about 22,000 titles in 49 languages, about 13,000 of them with the text. From Pride and Prejudice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Moby Dick and Anne of Green Gables to classics in German, Spanish, French and Japanese.

KEY FEATURES

■ Read along
The paragraph being read is highlighted and the page scrolls with the narrator. Chapters are matched to the headings in the text, so you just open a book and press play. Scroll away and auto-follow pauses; tap "Back to current position" to return. Change text size and line spacing, or keep the screen on while reading.

■ Play from any paragraph, fix the sync
Tap a paragraph to play from there, bookmark it, copy it or send it to a translation app. If the highlight is off, tap the paragraph being read and choose "Sync to this paragraph". Corrections are saved for the book.

■ Save words with their sentence
Long-press a word to save it with the sentence it appeared in and its place in the recording. No limit on saved words. Look it up in a dictionary app or website, hear it, read the sentence aloud, jump back to that spot in the book, and add a meaning and notes in your own words. A word is sent only to the app or site you pick.

■ Translate a paragraph
Send a paragraph to your translation app or Google Translate on the web. No machine translation is laid over the text, so you keep reading the original.

■ Find a book fast
Search titles and authors (accents don't matter). Filter by language, text available, 130+ genres and length, and sort by popularity. Home shows popular books in your language, books under two hours, books in progress and favorites.

■ Speed and sleep timer
Set the speed from 0.5x to 3.0x in 0.05 steps. The sleep timer stops after set minutes or at the chapter's end.

■ A real audiobook player
Background playback, lock screen and notification controls, headphone and Bluetooth buttons. Skip by seconds or by chapter, and "Undo jump" if you tap the wrong place. Rewind a little after a pause, and skip the LibriVox intro at the start of each chapter. Your place is saved, so you always pick up where you left off.

■ Listen offline
Download a whole book or just the next few chapters, on Wi-Fi only if you like. Deleting audio keeps your progress and bookmarks.

■ Library and backup
Bookmarks with notes, favorites, finished, downloaded and in-progress books. Back up progress, bookmarks and words to a file (Drive or device) and restore them on a new phone. Light and dark themes.

PREMIUM (ONE-TIME PURCHASE)
• Word review cards with spaced repetition, using the sentence from the book as a hint
• Export words as CSV (Excel, Sheets, Quizlet) or as an Anki / AnkiDroid deck
• Sleep timer options: any number of minutes, fade out, shake to extend, rewind a minute when it stops
• Skip silence and volume boost
• Repeat a paragraph, and per-book speed
• Sepia and black reading pages, serif and mono fonts, color themes
• Listening stats: minutes per day, streaks and time per book

PRICING
Every book, read-along, downloads, saving words, dictionaries, bookmarks and backup are free, with no limits on how many or how often. Premium is a single payment, not a subscription. Free features won't be moved to Premium later. No account needed.

ABOUT THE BOOKS
Recordings by LibriVox volunteers; texts from Project Gutenberg and Aozora Bunko. All works are in the public domain. The highlight follows paragraphs, not single words.