Finding Free eBooks & Audiobooks | THE source for BitTorrent & P2P Tips, Tricks and Info. | FileShareFreak Here’s a list of some common methods for finding eBooks and audiobooks on various P2P networks and protocols. An eBook, or Electronic book (sometimes spelled “E-Book”), is simply a book, magazine, manual etc. that has been released to digital format. They take many forms, such as *.PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files, *.CHM (similar to a Windows ‘help’ file), *.LIT files (Microsoft Reader) or just plain text files (ASCII). Usually when a book or magazine is converted to these formats (except ASCII), it is professionally done in deliberate support of the program that is opening it, making the reading experience far more enjoyable that reading it in a text editor like Notepad. An audiobook is a book that has been professionally narrated and saved to digital format. Searching for free eBooks & Audiobooks One resource for finding free (but copyrighted) ebooks and audiobooks is in the newsgroups (Usenet). Alt.binaries.e-book Alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.audiobooks eBooks and audiobooks on BitTorrent:
ABTorrents – A Great Audio Book Torrent Site Torrent sites that track audio books are not new to this blog – we’ve already covered some leading names in this niche such as My Anonamouse, Bibliotik and CatTorrent. Anyways here’s a promising new specialized private tracker that caters for audiobooks and audiobooks only; ABTorrents. ABTorrents tracks a wide range of content including fiction, children’s books, adult novels, science fiction and books relating to many other topics - mostly non educational content. As of 3/5/2010, ABTorrents currently tracks 1200+ torrents and 4400+ active members. Speaking of the content found on ABTorrents, there is no need to retell the fact that it’s full of audio books. As you can see above, most indexed audiobooks are encoded in MP3 format (at various bitrates). Right now signups for ABTorrents are open. Site Name: Audio Book Torrents ( Signup URL: Other similar trackers you might be interested in: