The Hobbit (Audio-Ebook/Whispersync-like/EPUB3) – J. R. R. Tolkien Free Audiobook

Written by J. R. R. Tolkien
Read by Bluefax
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

This is an EPUB3 with Media Overlays. You can read the book and have the audiobook, narrated by Bluefax with sound effects and music, synced up with your reading. The relevant sentences will be highlighted.

Opus 64 kbps mono

ISBN 978-0-395-87346-5 by Houghton Mifflin

Illustrated by Alan Lee

You can use epub3 readers which support media overlays. On desktop, you have Thorium Reader. The Colibrio Reader works from the browser via this link: https://demo.colibrio.com/

On mobile, Colibrio Reader (best on Android, iOS coming soon) and Reasily (Android). Sorry, I do not own any Apple device and cannot give out any recommendations. But all these other readers work with this book.

(The sample video shows the Lord of the Rings epub3, but that is just to illustrate how it works on a phone. The Hobbit version works just as well.
https://v.redd.it/yxof7req2cec1 )

Description from Goodreads:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.