For the past year, our kids have used (and loved) their Yoto audiobook players. If you’re unfamiliar with Yoto, I’ve written a post with all the information you need and a list of our favorite audiobook cards: All About the Yoto Audiobook Player Making your own Yoto cards One of my favorite features of the Yoto is the ability to record or download your own audiobooks onto Make Your Own Yoto cards. Here’s more information on how to do that: First, you must own the audio files in order to make your own Yoto cards. Unfortunately, this means that audiobooks from Libby or Scribd or Hoopla won’t work for this. In addition, if you have audiobooks from Audible, you can only listen to them within the app (but they aren’t a downloadable mp3). There’s a way to jailbreak them and download as mp3s, but because that violates Audible’s terms of service, I wouldn’t advise it. To make your own Yoto card, you’ll first need to purchase a Make Your Own card from the Yoto website. Then follow these instructions to upload an mp3 or your own recorded audio file and link it to a card. One of my favorite things about the Make Your Own cards is that you can re-record them as many times as you’d like. So if you’re finished listening to one audiobook and ready for a new one, you can use the same card! Where do you find mp3s to download? My current favorite source for purchasing and downloading mp3 audiobooks is Libro.fm. Purchases from Libro.fm benefit a local bookstore of your choice, so I’ve chosen to support A House With Books in Keller, Texas, which is a lovely new bookstore in my area. Libro.fm frequently has great sales on audiobooks, and you can purchase credits, which often makes more financial sense. For example, you could purchase The Chronicles of Narnia audiobook collection (all 33 hours!) for $41.85 or use 1 credit (which costs $14.99) to purchase the entire thing. A monthly membership costs $14.99/month. How do you make Yoto card stickers? Once you’ve made your own Yoto card, you can use Canva.com to upload a picture of the book’s cover and print it onto a sticker. I’ve made a Yoto card template you can access here. Just drag your own photos into the picture frames in the template, click

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