In the dim, humid basement of his Maryland home, Michael Scherer, a tall 38-year-old with the long, square beard of a mandolin player or a monk, leans toward a rebuilt Russian tube microphone, ...

I’ve always loved audiobooks, but the price can make it hard to keep up with the habit. A few months of paying for a subscription, and suddenly I’ve spent as much as I would on a stack of new ...

Hugh McGuire’s goal is to make all public domain (expired copyright) books available free online in audio format. He’s created LibriVox to reach that goal, and it is a terrific open source, public ...

Sometimes, we just want to get immersed in a story in a way that can't entirely be achieved by reading. Other times, we don't have time to sit down with a book — but you might just have the time to ...