webwords Listen before you choose.

The webwords project aims to enrich the quality of the experience of choosing an audio book. The service is primarily aimed at visually impaired visitors but will equally assist all audio book enthusiasts. It does this by allowing visitors to listen to a small sample of a book they might wish to enjoy, to hear what it sounds like, to listen and experience not only the essence of the book, but the quality and style of the narration.

The audio samples are directly accessible from this web site. Each sample is approximately 30 seconds in length to enable a good sense of the book while limiting the time taken to download it.

We are not a commercial organisation. The purpose of the samples is solely to support the experience of browsing and selecting audio books for visually impaired people, in a comparable way to how sighted people might read a few lines from a book.

Webwords has now been in existence for over three years but now, as funds become exhausted, will remain only as a reference site and no further samples will be added. Webwords will finally close down completely in December 2008.

If you are an author or a narrator whose work is featured on the site, and you have any issues with the concept of the site or its aims, or any concerns about copyright issues, please contact us at admin@webwords.org