Yes, some of the books audiobooksforfree has available are old material that has been digitized, and some of the sound quality that is "free" is great, but some iof it is not. You shop around.... there are sound samples to hear the different versions. The free sound is not too bad on some of the books, and (pssst) the cheapest paid rate stuff has sound I can hardly tell the diff from the expensive-rate stuff.

The newer material there has shorter files, too, which is a help navigating around the player.

~S~