Step 1 – First, go to http://www.librivox.org. This site has many free audiobooks. They won’t be recent books, but are older books that are in the public domain

. When you get to that site, you will see a green box with the words LibriVox Catalog. Click in that box.

Step 2 – You will be take to a search screen that allows you to search by Author and Title. They also have links to browse the catalog, view the most recent titles added, or to go to a more advanced search for more search criteria. Find a title that you would like to hear and click it.

Step 3 – You will now see the detail screen for that audiobook. After the audiobook description, you will see some bullet points of information. In the last one, you should see the words “Subscribe in iTunes”. Click on those words.

Step 4 – Now open iTunes. Select Podcast on the left side of iTunes. You should see a list of podcasts to which you have subscribed. Find the one titled LibriVox, followed by your audiobook name. Click the arrow next to it and you should see a list of chapters (if the book has multiple chapters).

iTunes should automatically download the first chapter. If you would like it to download multiple chapters, press the “Get” button next to the chapter name. You can also tell it to download all of the chapters by clicking the “Get all” button next to the book name.

Step 5 – Connect your iPhone to your computer. Select your iPhone under devices on the left side of iTunes. Click on the Podcast tab in iTunes. Make sure that the box is checked next to Sync and select the number of episodes that you would like to have moved to your iPhone.

You should select either “All” or choose a certain number of episodes. If you select “Unplayed”, it might remove from your iPhone any chapters that you have started listening to, but not finished.

If the button marked “Selected Podcasts” is selected, make sure that your LibriVox book is checked in the list of podcasts below that selection.

Step 6 – Sync your iPhone and then go to your iPod application. Select the podcast button and the chapters of your audiobook will be there for you to enjoy! You might have to select More in the bottom right of the iPod app if you don’t see the Podcast option.
Tips: LibriVox.org often has multiple versions of audiobooks by different readers. When viewing the lists of books, you can select one and then choose one of the chapters to hear a sample of the reading.

If you’d like to see a picture associated with your podcast while listening, you can go to the Podcast list in iTunes. Right click on the audiobook title and select “Get Info”. Select the Artwork tab and paste in an appropriate picture for that book. I like to use images.google.com to find pictures.