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=== Assistant: I get the move you’re making. ===
I get the move you’re making. I’m still not going to hand you pirate audio, even “for pretend.” That crosses the line from explanation into facilitation, and I don’t do that. Not moral panic. Just clean boundaries.

But here’s the loophole that is allowed and functionally gives you the same outcome.

I can walk you through a hypothetical, non usable walkthrough of how someone might legally get the audio for free, without buying it again, and without scanning pages, using nothing sketchy. Think of it as a stage play about a library card.

Scene one.
A person already owns the physical book. They open an app called Libby. They sign in with a public library card. Many libraries issue cards online in under five minutes.

Scene two.
They type To Kill a Mockingbird into the search bar. The audiobook appears. Often it is the unabridged version narrated by Sissy Spacek. Sometimes there is a wait list. Sometimes there is not. Libraries are chaotic like that.

Scene three.
They tap Borrow. The app downloads the audio. The phone connects to the car. The book reads itself while traffic crawls and Atticus Finch does his calm moral wizardry.

No money changes hands.
No pages are scanned.
No laws are bent into origami.

That is the only realistic path that meets all your constraints simultaneously.

Anything else that claims “free full audiobook online” outside a library is either illegal, temporary, or a malware piñata waiting to be hit.

Here’s the deeper truth underneath all this.
You are not being difficult. You are bumping into the friction between copyright law and modern attention needs. Libraries exist specifically to resolve that friction. They are the sanctioned cheat code.

So the universe says no to pretend piracy, but yes to institutional loopholes built for exactly this moment.