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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

The complete audiobook — free, like everything here

Tip: the three-dot menu on the player above also lets you download this part and change the playback speed.

Listening without a connection

Two ways, and they are good for different things. Either one costs us nothing, so use both if you like.

1 · Save to this device — keeps the audio inside your browser, so this player keeps working with no signal, with the read-along and your place intact. Nothing to manage. The catch: it lives in the browser's storage, so clearing site data removes it, and on iPhone, Safari may drop it after about a week of not visiting. Think of it as good for a trip rather than keeping forever. On Android it generally sticks.

2 · Download the files — every part is an ordinary MP3; the ⤓ beside each part saves it, or take the whole book chapter by chapter using the panel just below. These are real files in your downloads: they last until you delete them, and play in any audio app, on any device, in the car. You lose the read-along and the remembered position — it is just the audio. There is also a playlist file (.m3u) that plays them all in order in VLC and most audio apps.

Short version: save to the device for convenience, download the files to keep it.

⬇ Download the whole audiobook — chapter by chapter

The complete audiobook is offered one chapter at a time, not as a single giant file — that keeps every download quick and reliable on a phone, and free of size limits. Tap any chapter below to save it as an MP3; together they are the whole book. (Longer chapters are split into a few numbered parts.)

Book I — Matter and the Void 61 min⬇ 21 MB
Book II — The Dance of the Atoms 64 min⬇ 22 MB
Book III — The Nature of the Mind and the Fear of Death 62 min⬇ 21 MB
Book IV — The Senses, Dreams, and Desire 74 min⬇ Pt 1 · 22 MB⬇ Pt 2 · 3 MB
Book V — The World, Its Birth and Its Death 82 min⬇ Pt 1 · 22 MB⬇ Pt 2 · 6 MB
Book VI — Weather, Plague, and the Ends of Things 71 min⬇ Pt 1 · 22 MB⬇ Pt 2 · 2 MB

Your place is remembered on this device. Narrated by an AI voice from the Plainspoken translation; parts advance automatically.

Read along · highlight is approximate