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Audiobooks for hospitals and hospital wards

Boy listening to books in hospital bed wearing headphones and looking at a tablet.

For patients in hospital wards, long stays and tiredness can mean that reading is impossible, even watching the TV can be too tiring.  As an alternative, you can now offer your patients access to thousands of audiobooks via our online service.

There are two ways that most of our hospitals choose to join the service, but if they don’t suit your set-up please give our friendly staff a call to talk through what might work for you.

If you have devices and a good internet connection

If your hospital already has internet enabled devices (tablets or phones) that you are able to share with the patients and a decent wifi that you can connect to, then this option is for you.

For just £62.50 for the year, we will supply you with a username and password to access over 9,000 digital audiobooks.  You will need to add the Libby app to your devices and log in.  The details will allow you to download and stream 12 audiobooks at a time, meaning if you had 12 devices, 12 patients could be listening at once.  If you would like more patients to listen at once then you can purchase a higher allocation – in increments of five.

If you don’t have devices but you do have internet connection

If you don’t have devices, we can source these and install our app for you.  You can choose how many devices you would like to purchase and we will buy these on your behalf for you at cost, and we can normally get some for around £110 (please check with us at time of purchase though as prices do vary). The devices are yours to keep even if you decide not to carry on with the service after your initial year.   Once you have decided how many devices you need, it is just £62.50 on top of that per year to access the service.

If you don’t have a good internet connection you can still join!

If you don't have a stable internet connection, you have two options –

1. You can purchase a mifi unit for your ward

Or 

2. You can take your devices somewhere there is a good connection and download the books from there.  Once they are on your device, you can listen from anywhere with no internet connection d. We can provide paper catalogues of our most popular books for your patients to choose from.

Get in touch for more information and to join

Books your patients might enjoy

Death At Horsey Mere

Death At Horsey Mere

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Format: Online

Tough Times On Coronation Close

Tough Times On Coronation Close

Author: Lizzie Lane

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Connect Summer 2025

Connect Summer 2025

Author: Listening Books

Format: Online

An Interview With Beverley Watts

An Interview With Beverley Watts

Author: Listening Books

Format: Online

A Royal Ambition

A Royal Ambition

Author: Iris Gower

Format: Online

We can always rely on Listening Books to transform our books into outstanding audio experience. Their dedication and professionalism combined with their admirable social mission make us proud to have them as a partner.

Felix Janosik, CaneloFelix Janosik, Canelo

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