OpenStax Biology 2e Audiobook/Audio Textbook
Get more out of life science with the OpenStax Biology 2e Audiobook! Audileo, an official OpenStax tech partner, gives you the full, professionally read textbook for this common two-semester biology course for science students. This comprehensive resource delivers over 85 hours of audio content, offering thorough coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. This college audiobook is designed to engage you in scientific inquiry, highlight careers in the biological sciences, and offer everyday applications. Use this flexible audio format to review dense chapters and reinforce key concepts, ensuring success in your demanding biology coursework.
- Audiobook duration: 85 hrs
- Last updated: July 2025
- Textbook Publisher: OpenStax
- Audiobook Publisher: Audileo
The OpenStax Biology 2e audio textbook is designed to fit the needs of a typical two-semester college biology course for science majors. It covers both essential research and key biology concepts through a modern evolutionary perspective. This resource includes engaging features that encourage students to explore scientific questions, showcase career options in the biological sciences, and relate academic theory to real-life situations. The second edition has been significantly updated for clearer, more relevant, and more lively explanations. It also includes better illustrations in the companion PDF/web version and more assessment tools, providing strong support for challenging coursework.
Textbook Authors: Mary Ann Clark, Texas Wesleyan University; Matthew Douglas, Grand Rapids Community College; Jung Choi, Georgia Institute of Technology
This is an audio adaptation of the Biology 2e textbook by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as a PDF for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to the audio version to ensure a better listening experience.
The OpenStax Biology 2e PDF textbook is available here.
Listen to chapter 1 of our OpenStax Biology 2e Audiobook on YouTube!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
You can download the OpenStax Biology 2e pdf for free from the official OpenStax website. OpenStax is a nonprofit organization that offers its digital textbooks at no cost.
Locating Student Resources: You can typically find solutions for your textbook in the “Answer Key” section at the back of the book or under the “Student Resources” tab for your specific textbook on openstax.org. Note that not all textbooks include a solutions manual.
Instructor Solutions Manuals: The Instructor Solutions Manual is restricted and accessible only to instructors, not students, self-learners, or tutors. Your instructor may share these solutions with you to help verify your work.
Yes, the Audileo Biology 2e Audiobook is an almost exact replica of the OpenStax Biology 2e textbook. Minor editorial changed were made for a better listening experience. The audiobook contains the same chapters as the textbook and gets updated regularly.
Unfortunately, not at this time.
In March, 2018.
About Audileo
If your preferred learning style is auditory, or if you urgently need a break from the constant, tiring demands of screen time, then Audileo is your essential, dedicated resource. We specialize in producing fully narrated audio textbooks, a service made possible through our exclusive status as an official OpenStax technology partner. We guarantee that the essential academic content, which is already available as a free and open-access resource, can be easily and enjoyably absorbed through dedicated listening. Our academic audiobooks offer a much-needed alternative method for engaging with dense course material, supporting better focus, and helping to significantly relieve the prevalent eye strain and cognitive fatigue inherent in the modern, technology-heavy student life.
About OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative founded at Rice University, dedicated to expanding access to high-quality education for all learners. The OpenStax textbooks are the most widely used open educational resources (OER) textbooks in the world. OpenStax publishes free, high-quality, peer-reviewed, open licensed textbooks that are used by millions of high school, college, and university students and educators in over 150 countries. Their mission is to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of education by providing reliable, accessible, and adaptable learning resources.
Founded on the belief that educational opportunities should be available to everyone, OpenStax partners with educators, subject experts, and institutions to create resources that meet the highest academic standards. In addition to textbooks, OpenStax offers supplemental tools like instructor materials, learning technology integrations, and now audiobooks, ensuring that college and university students of all learning styles and abilities have the support they need to succeed. OpenStax has chosen Audileo™ as the official Technology Partner to deliver its textbook content in audiobook format.