“I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
Building a
Million Story
personal LIBRARY
Shortwave will be among the largest privately owned Audio libraries in existence.
Find what you like, keep it forever


CURATED & CUSTOMIZED
Pick up the reading lists of greats like Oprah Winfrey. Or, tell Shortwave what subject you would like to listen to and it will recommend content tailored to your preferences.
Your personal Shortwave library will grow to encompass your every curiosity or intellectual interest.
Listen wherever you are,
SEAMLESSLY.
Enjoy the largest possible variety of stories with the least possible effort.


BOOK LOVERS
A community of
Comment on what you like and what you'd like to hear more of!
Not Just Audio Books, Audio Everything. Browse the library.
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
The Center of the Earth
Edgar Allan Poe
Macbeth
A Tale of Two Cities
Sherlock Holmes
Little Women
Jane Eyre
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
William Shakespear
Frankenstein
Les Miserables
Ulysses
The Aeneid

The App
The Shortwave app is launching soon. Sign up to be one of the very first beta users!

Science Fiction brought to life
We're updating the traditional library for the 21st century. Our mission is to index all of human knowledge and put it at your fingertips..... or earbuds.
In Honor of Brewster Kahle
and in memoriam of Aaron Swartz.