Overview
Welcome to the world of audiobooks! An audio book is a recording of a
book being read aloud. There are tens of thousands of audiobooks
available in the world, in various languages, covering topics from
education to entertainment.
Nokia Audiobooks is a beta concept that enables you to enjoy audiobooks
while on the go. It uses a highly efficient audio compression
technology optimized for voice (AMR-WB, 3GPP 26.190 / ITU-T G.722.2 ).
The concept consists of a player application for S60 (Nokia Audiobook
Player), and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager).
Whereas traditional music player applications are optimized for music,
Nokia Audiobook Player is optimized for audiobooks, enabling you to
browse chapters, set bookmarks, and automatically continue from where
you stopped listening last time.
A typical 400 page novel translates into 10-20 hour long audio book,
which would traditionally take more than dozen CDs or hundreds of
megabytes of low-quality MP3 files. With Nokia Audiobooks, you get even
10 times more content on your phone with similar voice quality -
compared to content that has been compressed with MP3 at 128 kbps.
Consequently, you can easily store multiple audiobooks on your memory
card - and still have plenty of capacity left for the other things
(like pictures and videos) you find important.
Nokia Audiobook Player (for listening books in S60 phone)
- Compatibility and system requirements
- Compatibility and system requirements
- Should work with all Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition (see device list).
The client has been tested with these devices: N73, N76, N80, N93, N91,
E70, E65, E62, E60, E50, 5500 sport, 3250, N95, N95 8g, N76, E90, 6290,
6110 Navigator, E63, N96, E90, N85
- Download
Click here to download.
Installation instructions
1. Download and install NokiaAudiobookPlayer_1_xx into your phone.
- 2. Make sure you have at least one audio book on your memory card.
- You can copy an audio book onto your phone using Nokia Audiobook Manager.
- However, if you choose to copy converted books manually onto a
memory card, they must be located in the "/audiobooks" subdirectory
under the root directory of the phone memory card (e.g.
"e:/audiobooks”").
- The entire content of the book (audio files, index file and
optional cover picture) must be located in the same subfolder of
/audiobooks. The subfolder name may indicate the name of the book (e.g.
"e:/audiobooks/TheBestSeller").
3. Start the player and select the book by selecting
"Options" from left soft key and then choosing "Select book" from the
list.
- 4. Start listening.
- "Select" (joystick down): start/pause book
- joystick left/right: rewind the book
- joystick up/down keys: increase/decrease volume.
If you exit the client, it will automatically save a
bookmark and you can continue to listen from the same position when you
start the client again. The bookmarks are book dependent, so you can
listen to several books at a time.
Nokia Audiobook Manager (for converting and transferring books)
- Compatibility and system requirements
- Compatibility and system requirements
- Windows operating system. Tested on Windows Vista, Windows XP and
2000 (may also work on other versions, does not work on Windows 98)
- Download
- Download
- Download (MSI, 1068 KB)
Installation instructions
1. Download Installation file to your PC (NokiaAudiobookManagerInstallation.msi).
2. Double click the downloaded file to start the installation (if
installation is not started automatically, set installation file
focused and select "Open with" from mouse right key menu. Then select
"Windows Installer" as an program to open the file)
3. Follow the installation instructions.
4. Start Nokia Audiobook Manager using the icon on the desktop or in the "Start->Programs" menu.
5. In case you want to convert audio books from MP3 files, you will
also need an MP3 decoder, which can be downloaded e.g. From: here. (NOTE: "lame.exe" must be located in the same directory with the NokiaAudiobookManager.exe)
Free audiobooks from Librivox
- Free audiobooks from Librivox
- Free audiobooks from Librivox
- For your convenience, we have converted a couple of free public domain books from Librivox librivox.org into compatible format:
Fiction:
Non-fiction:
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