Conditions of Use

Using this site means accepting what is on this page. The service is simple: the library is free to use, and using it needs no account.

What we offer

Open Ear Books provides audiobooks and the text of each to read along, free of charge and without an account. We may add titles, change them, or take them down.

What you may do

Listen and read, as much as you like, for yourself or with other people. Link to any page here. Use it in a classroom, a library or a reading group. What you may do with the recordings beyond that is covered on the License page.

What you may not do

• Take the site apart automatically in a way that degrades it for other people, including bulk downloading at a rate a person could not read at.
• Present our recordings or artwork as your own work.
• Get around a territorial restriction. Some titles are in the public domain in some countries and not in others, and where that is so we offer them only where we may.
• Use the site to break the law where you are.

Accuracy

Errors can get through, and we do not claim to have checked every line. If you find one, tell us. We do not warrant that everything here is free of mistakes, and nothing here is professional advice of any kind, including the copyright reasoning on the title pages, which describes our own decisions rather than yours.

Links out

Where a page links to a shop that sells a printed edition, we say plainly whether we earn a commission. We are not responsible for other people's websites.

Liability

The service is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, Open Ear Books is not liable for loss arising from using it. Nothing here limits any right you have that cannot be limited.

The mailing list

Signing up to the mailing list is entirely optional, and it makes no difference to anything on this site. Everything here is free to use, in full, whether you are on the list or not. The Privacy Notice says what we keep and how to leave.

Thank-you gift cards

Sometimes we send an Amazon gift card to somebody whose email has helped us: a correction, a suggestion, something we would not have known otherwise. It is a thank-you, decided by us, whenever we feel like it. There is nothing to enter, nothing to buy, no deadline and no promise that we will send you one. We may stop doing it at any time.

Getting in touch

For questions about these conditions, please reach out to us here.