Audiobooks

Libby | Hoopla | BARD

Libby/Overdrive offers a curated collection of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines with a focus on quality selections that meet the diverse reading and listening preferences of the Princeton community.

Access Libby/Overdrive

Specifics

Available on computer and mobile devices; sync across devices
Search for titles, checkout/borrow and place holds right in the app.
Check out up to 7 items at a time for a maximum of 21 days.
No overdue fees; return when finished or items will auto-return at due date.
Renewals subject to availability.
Place up to 15 items on hold.

Download the app

Getting Started

Create and account with your library card and PIN on the website or on the Libby app.
Getting started with Libby
Libby app instructions and help
Computer instructions and help

Highlights & Accessibility Features

Now includes audiobooks from the former RBDigital collection, including the popular Pimsleur Language series.
Use with Amazon Echo or Google Home.
Speed up or slow down playback speed.

Hoopla provides immediate access to thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and music albums.

Access hoopla

Specifics

Available on computer and mobile devices; sync across devices.
Search for titles and checkout/borrow right in the app. Hoopla titles are not listed in Bibliocommons, the library’s online catalog.
Check out a maximum of 5 items per month.
Borrowing periods: ebooks, comics, and audiobooks for 21 days; music albums for 7 days
Titles always available; no waiting, no holds.
No overdue fees; items will auto-return at due date.
No need to renew, just borrow again.

Download the app

Getting Started

Set up an account with an email and password on the website or on the app. Library card number is required.
After account is set up, login with email and password.
Instructions & help

Highlights & Accessibility Features

Includes titles from The Great Courses
Pimsleur Language Learning-Level One in over 30 languages
World language collection available
Speed up or slow down payback speed.

BARD

Offered through the New Jersey State Library’s Talking Book and Braille Center, the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) program provides audio and Braille materials to people of all ages who have difficulty reading standard print, holding a book, or turning the pages of a book because of blindness, a vision impairment, a physical impairment, a perceptual impairment, or a reading disability.

Access BARD

Specifics

Services available for New Jersey residents. Residents of other states or US citizens living abroad should work with their network library.
Registration for services must be received and approved by the NJ State Library before materials can be accessed.
Titles available via download to designated players or using the BARD mobile app.
Titles always available; no waiting, no holds.
No limit on materials.

Download the app

Getting Started

Visit a service desk to learn more or schedule an appointment with a PPL librarian to work on and certify an application.
Learn more about BARD from the Talking Book and Braille Center

Highlights & Accessibility Features

Available materials include audio and Braille books (including both commercially-produced audiobooks and additional titles recorded under special permission for this program), audio and Braille magazines, and music books and scores.
Titles available in many world languages.
Adjust tone and playback speed.
Player language can be set to English or Spanish.
High volume players and additional attachments, including breath switches, available from the Talking Book and Braille Center by request.