RSlabaugh wrote: ↑October 17th, 2019, 1:48 pm
philchenevert wrote: ↑October 17th, 2019, 11:54 am
Rosebud. What do you do before you hit 'download'? What do you need to tell your iphone first or what site do you need to go to?
I’ll give a scenario, and hopefully it’ll make sense. I’m a Pansy fan, so I want to listen to more of her books. I go to the LibriVox home page and enter 'Pansy' in the search bar.
Several results pop up, so I choose (in this case) one of the bottom 2 options which take me to 'Pansy' or Isabella Macdonald Alden's page with her books listed below the description of her life.
'Interrupted' is a book I have not yet listened to and the title looks interesting. Just below the title is a download button that I could use, but first I want to get an idea of the story, so I hit the title name to see more about it. There is a summary at the top, followed by each section as an individual track. Below that are four options, but download is the top and the only one that I use.
There are different ways of finding the books you want, like exploring a genre, a language, or a reader you like to listen to.
Sorry for the drawn out explanation! Hopefully it’ll be helpful to somebody.
This is pretty much what I do, too. Since an entire audiobook usually is a pretty large file, even in zip format, I will plan to download the book I want only when I have Wifi available. When I tap "Download," it will download the zip file into my download folder. From there, I can unzip it into my music app (for me, this is a built-in app that came with the phone, called "Mix"), where it will be saved as an "album." When I play that album, the files
should (and usually do) play in the right order, one after another, without me having to tap anything.
However, I only do this above process if I'm planning to listen to a book during a time that I expect to have little or no cell service. For instance, if I have a plane ride or a long car trip through the middle of nowhere. Downloading a whole book takes up a lot of space on my phone, and I usually don't have much free memory available. Plus it's kind of a pain to go through that whole process. So if I'm pretty sure that service won't be an issue for me (which is most of the time), I just stream the book instead of downloading it. I don't use an app for this, just my regular internet browser on my phone. First, I go to the catalogue page for the book I want (like maybe
this one). Then I scroll down to the link that says "Internet Archive Page." This takes me away from the LV catalogue altogether, and into Archive's website, where the files are stored. Here, I can start the book playing, and it will play in order, one chapter after another, without me having to tap anything to start the next one playing. Another benefit to this method is that my browser will usually remember where I left off listening, and will start there when I start up again. It even has a "rewind 10 seconds" button, which is very helpful if I miss something and want to back up and hear it again. My music player doesn't do either of those things, so this is actually my preferred method.
You then need to choose where to place it within your files. From there, tap on the zip file, which will create a folder with all of the sections. 
Maybe someone has a tip for that, because it is rather annoying to always have to select and start the next file in order to keep listening.
I’ll check it out, thanks!
What do you see when you go to, for instance, 
My phone doesn’t have the best of service at home, and I’m lucky if I have 2 bars of LTE. So I’ll make that my excuse. 