How to Download Free Audible Books in 4 Ways

Part 1. How to Make Audible Books Free Download via Free Trial

If you don't already have an Audible membership, then you can benefit from its 30-day free trial. With it, you can download Audible books for free, from the best sellers to new releases. The only thing you need to do is sign up for the free trial.

What's Audible 30-day Free Trial

Audible offers a premium service that gives users access to its library of audiobooks. It also offers a 30-day free trial that allows new users to experience its features before subscribing.

The free trial allows you to download any two audiobooks at no cost. Even if you don't continue using Audible, you can still keep the two downloaded audiobooks. In addition, whenever you pay for your Audible membership, you can get another new audiobook for free.

How to Get Two Free Audible Audiobooks

The following tutorial will focus on how to join Audible 30-day free trial and download free Audible books.

Step 1Sign up Amazon Audible account

Launch your web browser and navigate to Audible's website. Then click the 'Sign In' button or 'Try Audible Free' button to open the register interface. Just type in your Amazon account and password. If you don't have one, please create your Amazon account first.

Step 2Launch 30-day Free Trial Plan

There are two ways to start a 30-day free trial subscription. One is to click the 'Account Details' button to select the right Audible membership plan ($14.95 for one book a month or $22.95 for two books a month). You will need to fill in your credit card and other detailed info and then click the 'Start Free Trial' button to finish the process. Or you can enter the shopping cart and choose '30-day Trial Membership' to get this order.

Step 3Download Audible Books Free

Now, you can discover great audiobooks in Audible that you like to download. Once you have found out, please click the 'Add to Cart' button to get them. Then you can click the 'Download' icon on the audiobook to download it offline. All the audiobooks will be saved on your computer automatically. And you can download up to two audiobooks with this free 30-day trial service.

Note: Once you have downloaded two audiobooks for free, you can transfer them to other authorized devices and music players. But if you like to listen to them on incompatible MP3 players, you can read the article about How to Download Audible Books to MP3 Player.

Part 2. How to Get Free Audible Books Download via Free Listens

Apart from subscribing to Audible's free trial, you can also download free Audible books with Free Listens. Audible provides a list of free audiobooks that you can listen to and download for free.

Just sign up for your Amazon Audible account, then you can type 'free audiobooks' in the search box on Audible.com. After that, you can select the titles, add them to Cart as well as complete the order according to the instruction. Now, you can start to listen to and download audiobooks as you like. Or, you can follow the steps below to download Audible audiobooks for free.

Step 1. Open a browser on your computer and navigate to Audible Free Listens.

Step 2. Browse for the audiobook that you want to download and click on it.

Step 3. Click the 'Buy for $0.00' button and then 'Proceed to Checkout'.

Step 4. Confirm your order information and then click 'Complete purchase'.

Step 5. Now you can go to your 'library' and find the book. Then click 'Download' to download free Audible audiobooks.

Part 3. How to Get Audible Books for Free via Amazon Prime

If you are an Amazon Prime member, you can also get access to free Audible books, numbering over 50. If you have a Kindle device, you can search directly for the book you want to listen to. Books with the Prime logo and Whispersync option are available as audiobooks. Or, you can get free Audible audiobooks directly from the Audible channel of the Audible app.

Here is how you can get free Audible book via Amazon Prime.

Step 1. Go to the Amazon Prime Reading page and log in to your account.

Step 2. Find the book you want to listen to for free.

Step 3. Click 'Read and Listen for Free'. Then you can borrow free Audible audiobooks.

Part 4. Get Audible Audiobooks Free Download via Audible Plus Catalog

If you subscribe to Audible Plus or Audible Premium Plus, you'll be able to access the Audible Plus catalog. It contains thousands of free audiobooks without having to pay again. You can listen to them for free offline. However, please note that these free audiobooks are only valid for the duration of your paid membership.

You can refer to the steps below to download Audible Originals free.

Step 1. Open the Audible mobile app and sign in with your Audible Plus or Premium Plus account.

Step 2. Tap 'Discover' and then 'Plus Catalog' to find the book you want to listen to.

Step 3. Tap on the title and then 'Add to Library'.

Step 4. Go to your library and tap 'Download' to start downloading free Audible books.

Note: There is no download option of Audible Originals on the desktop app.

Part 5. How to Download Free Audible Books to MP3

All the audiobooks you downloaded from Audible are encoded in AA/AAX format. They can only be playable on selected devices and music players. This will limit your listening devices. So, you'd better use AudFree Audible Audiobook Converter to remove this restriction.

It is a professional converter to download and convert protected audiobooks to popular audio files. It supports batch converting any audiobook from Audible to MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV, and more. With it, you can get lossless audiobook files from Audible for keeping forever.

AudFree Audible Converter

• Convert Audible AAX to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, M4B, etc.
• Remove protection from Audible audiobooks for better playback
• Split Audible audiobooks into segments without limitations
• Listen to Audible audiobooks on any MP3 player or device

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Step 1Add Audible Audiobooks to AudFree Auditior

Open this AudFree Audible Converter and import Audible audiobooks to it. You can directly drag and drop audiobooks to it. Alternatively, you can click on the first "Add" icon at the bottom left to add audiobooks.

Step 2Reset Audible Output Format as MP3

Please click the "Format" icon to open the setting window. You can choose the MP3 output format for Audible audiobooks. You can also customize other output parameters including the channel, codec, and so on.

Step 3Convert Audible AA/AAX to MP3

Click on the huge "Convert" button at the bottom right to launch the conversion process. It will convert and download your audiobooks to MP3 at a 30X speed. When it's done, you can go back to the main interface and click 'Converted' to find the Audible downloads.

Part 6. Conclusion

If you are a new subscriber to Audible, then you can sign in for its free trial. In this way, you can get and download free Audible books. If not, you can also download Audible audiobooks for free via Audible Free Listens, Amazon Prime, and Audible Plus Catalog.

To enjoy Audible audiobooks anywhere, you can use AudFree Audible Converter. It allows you to convert Audible books to MP3 for playback on any device you want.