Audiobooks appearing as music

I have downloaded a number of audiobooks, but they are appearing within my song list. Even if a select shuffle songs only, I get them popping up. Any ideas where I am going wrong.

You have several options depending on what you've got going on.
If the audiobooks are broken up into several tracks, like one track for every CD that it uses, you can join them using an mp3 joiner. You can either leave them as mp3s or convert them to m4b's. m4b is the mp4 format that allows for bookmarking. If that is too much trouble (and trust me, it probably is), you can create a playlist with only those audiobook files in it. Then select them all and check "Skip when shuffling" and "Remember playback position". That allows for bookmarking and keeping them separate from your music files.

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