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If you live or study full-time in Kent and are blind or partially sighted you can apply for audiobooks by post.

We can provide audiobooks on CD or cassette - just tell us your favourite authors and the subjects you like. Audiobooks are delivered and returned by post in red plastic wallets free of charge, using Royal Mail's Articles for the Blind service.

Once you return your books we will send you more.

For more information:

• email openaccess@kent.gov.uk
• call 03000 41 19 66

Apply for audiobooks by post

Our mobile libraries visit many places in Kent.

Use our search facility to find out where and when our mobile libraries stop or call 03000 41 31 31 for more information.

Find out where our mobile library goes

If you are unable to visit a library in Kent due to age, disability, carer responsibilities, injury, or ill health, our Home Library Service delivers a variety of materials directly to your home.

Whether you enjoy fiction, non-fiction, large print, audiobooks, or DVDs, our volunteers will bring your selected items to your door, ensuring you have access without needing to leave your home. This is a free service provided by Kent Libraries.

Find out more

You can download free eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers from wherever you are if you are a Kent library member.

You can borrow up to 10 eBooks and eAudiobooks at a time.

Find out more about downloading items from our online library service.

We can deliver collections of items to residential homes, nursing homes, sheltered housing, hospices, day centres and hospitals. The scheme is called Open Access.

We will work with you to build up a profile of what you need and will deliver items 3 times a year. You get to keep each collection of items for 4 months.

We will then email you to let you know when we will be coming to change the items. You will need to store the boxes that the items arrive in.

What you can receive