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supportarticles
Using audiobooks on your Mac
How can I load audiobooks from CD so that I can listen to them on my iMac and iPhone?
The simplest way to listen to audiobooks
on your Mac and iOS devices is to buy
them using the Books app from Apple’s
audiobook section within its Book Store.
You can then automatically access them
across all devices that are signed in with
the same Apple ID. Although you can sync
your place in ordinary books, the Books
apps on macOS and iOS don’t currently do
this with audiobooks.
If you already have the audiobooks on
optical discs and have a suitable optical
drive, you can “rip” them to disk and import
them into the Books app on your Mac.
When you insert the first disc, let it mount
in the Finder and choose the Add to Library
command in the File menu of Books. The
snag with doing this is that each track will
be added as a separate audiobook: you
may find it better to “rip” the tracks using
a third–party app and join them together
before adding them. When you share your
Books library in iCloud, these will be
available to your iPhone too.
There are also several third–party
alternatives which access their own
libraries. The biggest commercial service is
Audible, which has its own iOS app. Well
worth considering is the large free
collection from LibriVox, again supported
by a dedicated app. They don’t offer macOS
apps, though, for which you’ll need to add
their books to your Books library in the
same way as you would an optical disc.Image rights: Apple.
Adding an audiobook CD to the Audiobooks section of the Books
app adds each track as a separate audiobook.Tech Support & Techsplanations
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