How to Share an Audible Book with a Friend (for free!)
You know that I’m a huge Audible fan and I’ve been using it for years (if you’re new to Audible, I wrote a whole post about how to use it here).
But like most tool, there are always a bunch of features you’re not really using or don’t even know about, and the “Share Audible Book with Friend” feature is one I just discovered!
Every book that you own in your Audible Library, you can share with one friend. It’s totally free and you can easily send the Audible book of your choice right from the app.
If you’re listening to a book that you’re loving and think that your mom would love it too? Two clicks and she can listen for free too.
Or if you’re listening to a book club pick, you can share it with a fellow member of your book club who also has more time to listen to audiobooks than to read.
Are there any catches?
Yes – you can only share Audible books with the same friend once.
So if you send The Boys in the Boat to Sue, she’ll get a free copy of it, but you can’t send her any more free Audible books. And she can’t receive a free one from any other friends.
(Who is Sue? I have no idea – it was just the name that came to my mind for this example).
How to use the “Share Audible Book with Friend” feature
To share an Audible book with a friend, just open your Audible app and push the “My Library” button at the bottom of the screen.
Then find the Audible audiobook that you want to share and tap the three dots to the right of the title.
One of the options that pops up will be “Send this Book.”
Tap that and it’ll give you the option to email or text the download link to whatever friend you’d like.
How easy is that?
Plus, you’ll look like the most thoughtful friend, neighbor, sibling, aunt or book club member on the planet.
Which I always consider an extra bonus in life.
P.S. If you’ve never used Audible before, you can sign up for a free 30 day trial here and get TWO free audiobooks. No friends required.
I prefer to read physical books but my friend prefers audible books. How do I gift an audible book when I don’t have an audible account? Thanks!
Just sign in with your Amazon account and then you can gift any book – click “More options” under the title and then choose “Give as Gift.”
My wife has an old kindle and it no longer supports Audible I also a newer kindle and an Audible account can she listen to her books on my kindle? If he’s how
Yes – she’ll need to log in with her Amazon account that connects to her Audible account and also use Bluetooth headphones.
I have a brand new Paperwhite and it is 100% the very worst bluetooth transmitter I have,, with stutters in transmission every minute or so. each of these means a missed word. They cursed Kindle with an outdated (and therefore super cheap) version of Bluetooth.
As for the justification of not permitting sharing your books, that’s just a symptom of Bezos’ hypergreed- with an audiobook, there’s only one setup expense. a fee to to copyright holder and to the reader. after that there’s NO cost for materials or distribution. It’s like selling the selfsame car over and over and over again. Just like expensive software, One cost to write it, the internet delivery means zero costs in CDs and manuals (which used to be supplied with every copy) – now there’s no costs except running the delivery server. And with all that hyper profit, we’re not “allowed” to lend our books? Bezos became the world richest man by also being the planets greediest. And that’s the truth of it.
Can I send a gift book directly to someones Amazon Echo device?
When you buy a book, it’s yours to do with as you wish. You can loan it to 100 friends if you want to. Why shouldn’t you be able to do this with an audio book? I don’t understand.
You’ll have to take it up with audiobook producers and distributors! I’d guess that the answer is “physical products and digital products are different.”
Hi my friend shared me a book. Clicked the link but its asking for an address
I sent a book, but my friend can’t open it. Dies anyone have something that explains it from her end?
I cannot down load a book my friend wants to share with me! Could you possibly help me?? Thanks
This feature is no longer available on Audible as of April 2021. FYI.
https://help.audible.com/s/article/send-this-book-terms-and-conditions?language=en_US
Sadly this feature doesn’t exist now (in the UK at least)
Trying to share a book with my mother but can only do it by buying it again, for her.
Y audible doesn’t show a “send this book”. It does show a “share”. Are they the same?
Hi,
I am try to share my book with my mother, but the options to share isn’t there. When you lush the 3 dots, what comes up is: Title details, who wrote the book, share but when the person opens it only shares 30 seconds of the book, Mark unfinished, rates & reviews, add to favorites, add to, archive this title, and remove from device.
Please help if you can. Thank you 😊
If I buy audiobook on cds, I can loan them out all day long. They should allow you to loan audiobooks but only for a time and only to one person at a time just like cds. The way they do it now you do not own the audiobook. Only the right to listen to it as long as you have an amazon account as that is where it is stored. And saying it costs a lot to produce and that they aren’t making much is not true. They are making plenty even if discounted as you only get the discounted price if you are paying for the membership.
I agree! I understand that the authors need to get paid, but Amazon should at least let you share every book with at least 1 person.
I use my local library for almost all of my audiobooks, but sometimes they do not the book I am looking for. There should be a way to rent an audiobook, does anyone know if there is a site that lets you borrow a book for a fee.
Thank you, but I’ll just stick to OpenAudible and a flash drive. More hassle but less constricting. Be nice if you could lend any book for say a week or month and have it disabled on your end and then it would be more like lending a physical book.
It’s also against the terms of service and can get your Audible account shut down which would mean you lose ALL your books.
I’m wondering if someone could help me. I’m sorry if I’m asking the same question as someone above, I just can’t find a straight answer. I have my own Amazon account but don’t pay for audible. I have a kindle and use it for books. My dad uses audible and has over 30 audiobooks on it that I downloaded with his credits as I wasn’t able to share between household. I’ve been doing this since. I was hoping to merge accounts or at least have my account as a family member share option but the only things that sync are the books and not the audiobooks. I feel like maybe they don’t allow it in my country? So confused, no one seems to know what to tell me and I’ve spent hours trying to figure it out. I opened a new collection under my dad’s account and names it after us and cant even see the collection under my kindles shared option. What’s even the point of offering if it doesn’t work I wonder ? Any advice would be really appreciated ! Thanks so much, I enjoyed your blog ☺️
Great tip! I’ve been looking for ways to share audiobooks with friends without breaking the bank. This method is perfect – thanks for sharing!
This article is outdated, as this feature is no longer available.
I have checked nearly every book I own from Audible and I have never seen a “Send this book” option. Once in awhile I will google how to do it but it never works.
Oh, no. I purchased a free-to-me book so I could share it with a friend based on this post, but this feature no longer exists. It might be best to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the post.
I’m sorry to hear it! You can reach out to Amazon and get a refund on that audiobook if you’d like. And it sounds like you might have bought it with a credit – here’s how to return an Audible book you bought with a credit https://everyday-reading.com/how-to-return-a-book-on-audible/