While working on my taxes, I saw how much money I spent on audiobooks for bicycle riding and on long trips this year. This was good motivation to mine the net and the library for less expensive alternatives. As I was setting out to search for “Free” material, I quickly realized again how nothing was “free.” More accurately, material is available for download at a reduced rate after calculating monthly connection fees, computer costs, taxes, and related transportation costs when visiting the library. Trips to the library contain their own subset of costs including time to obtain and return titles, and the price of gasoline now hovering at $3.10 a gallon. Most contemporary recordings lack production value, the best produced that I have heard are the “old time” radio shows. The caveat there is that the media quality varies from title to title, site to site. Let me know if you have other sources.

Mercury Theater / Orson Welles programs
Odeo – Audio and Video titles
Stories Now