Audiobooks questions

I have a second generation nano. I am running iTunes 7 on a XP PC. I have a few questions about audiobooks. First, I have 3 complete books bought from iTunes that I have transfered to my nano. From the documentation I have read, it sounds to me like you are able to skip "chapters" by pressing the FF button. When I do this, the nano skips to the next "part" of the audiobook. What I mean is when I bought these books, they came down in multiple parts (ie. Rainbow 6 part 1 of 3...and so on.)So, since I have 3 books all with multiple parts when I hit the ff button it skips to the next part in line whether it is part of the same book or not. Is this normal? It would make sense to me that hitting the FF button would skip to the next chapter in a selected book and then stop at the end of that book. I have read on a few posts that some folks are combining the parts into one mp4b file (if I got the file extension right). This makes sense to me but how do you go about merging the files into one.
I am more concerned with the chapter question. I have both a printed version and a iTuens downloaded version of the same book which I would like to read and listen to. It would be great if I could skip chapters on the audio version instead of trying to seek to the desired spot.
I know this is a little long in the tooth but I wanted to be as clear as possible.
Various Macs and PCs

I'm not a big audiobook user, but does anything here help?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it5-2.html

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I have a second generation nano. I am running iTunes 7 on a XP PC. I have a few questions about audiobooks. First, I have 3 complete books bought from iTunes that I have transfered to my nano. From the documentation I have read, it sounds to me like you are able to skip "chapters" by pressing the FF button. When I do this, the nano skips to the next "part" of the audiobook. What I mean is when I bought these books, they came down in multiple parts (ie. Rainbow 6 part 1 of 3...and so on.)So, since I have 3 books all with multiple parts when I hit the ff button it skips to the next part in line whether it is part of the same book or not. Is this normal? It would make sense to me that hitting the FF button would skip to the next chapter in a selected book and then stop at the end of that book. I have read on a few posts that some folks are combining the parts into one mp4b file (if I got the file extension right). This makes sense to me but how do you go about merging the files into one.
I am more concerned with the chapter question. I have both a printed version and a iTuens downloaded version of the same book which I would like to read and listen to. It would be great if I could skip chapters on the audio version instead of trying to seek to the desired spot.
I know this is a little long in the tooth but I wanted to be as clear as possible.

I figured it out ... I turned off Shuffle and the books flow straight through now. (I didn't think Shuffle affected these files since they were saved as audiobooks instead of as music, but it did.)

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Go to this page for a script to make them bookmarkable files so they will show up in the Audiobooks Library. It works well.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable
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I can not seem to delete a song(s) from my nano. I tryed to follow the instructions in Itunes but could not figure them out.
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Hi and thanks to everyone in advance for your responses.
I have spent some time searching the message board concerning my situation, which I will explain in a minute, but first I wanted to let everyone know that I have tried to do some research, but I am interested in the way in which these problems apply to my situation, and if anyone has suggestions or fixes. (Whew! quite a runon)
I spent a significant amount of time (~ 2 years) saving for a MP3 player, and after much debate decided that the most important feature was the ability to bookmark audio books. I have a 30 minute dri've to work, and have access to large amount of audio books and lectures in my profession. I therefore like to listen, depending on my mood to ) my music, 2) one of my audio books, or 3) one of the many audio lectures I have in my collection. Some times I may go for a week and stay with one thing, or I may switch things around and listen to one thing in the morning and a different thing in the evening. Since most of my time I am in my car when I listen, I had considered buying a MP3 capable CD player only, but Creative assured me that their product would meet all of my needs, and be portable.
The first part of my experience was just a promised. It was summer and I was also in the yard a lot, so I used the player constantly as a book and loved it. As my schedule has increased and as fall has approached I am now doing what I had initially intended and listen mainly in my car. So as you can imagine here is what happens:
)? I get in the car in the morning and turn on the player.........player loads...........and starts at the last track I was currently listening to. Except that I listen to audio books, and depending on the books some have 6 minute tracks and others have 45-50 minute tracks. As some of you know the track has reset. I now have to start fast forwarding through the track to find my previous spot. I know what some of you are thinking. You bought this player for the bookmarking feature that you spent considerable time talking with creative reps on the phone about and if you use that then you won?t have this problem. (Hold your horses; I will get to that in a sec.)? So you can really imagine my frustration when I get to work....come back after working 9-2 hours and turn on my player to discover....you guessed it. Player remembers the track but not the spot. So repeat the process above OR....
2)? Well as we all know, the main reason I was told that other players such as an Ipod and many other brands would not meet my need was because what I needed was a bookmarking feature. So let's run thru this scenario. Now in the morning I get in my car and find that the track has reset. I have "hot keyed" my short cut button for bookmark feature so that in a short click I can now reach my books that I have saved. I can now choose:? last listened to ) music? 2) chapter in book 3) lecture. This is great
!!! So let's start with the 45 minute chapter in a book. I restart in the chapter I was in (approximately 20 minutes into the chapter) and begin driving. Now in the middle of rush hour traffic 5-0 minutes from work I reach the end of the chapter and BOOM. Track dies and I am enjoying the sweet sound of silence. I can now just enjoy the relaxing silence until I get to work, or I can pick up my player and go back through my "now playing" tab to find the playlist, then locate the next track. This works GREAT!?
After explaining what happens above you can imagine that my original intention of listening to a lecture in the morning, and then relaxing by listening to a book in the evening has completely gone out the window. I now listen to my audio book only, and spend a great deal of time fast forwarding to find my last spot. Some of you might say "What's the big deal?"? Well, first I asked creative about the bookmarking feature, and I promise you that if you call a rep they will not tell you about it working this way even under considerable questioning, and secondly I think if I pay the amount of money I have for this product a software update should be available.
I'm wondering how many people have this problem, and if there are any fixes (including third party).
Thanks for reading this exceptionally long post,
?Michael

The steps to enter recovery mode can be found on top of the board.
Here's the link:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...p&message.id=3
Message Edited by KokChoy-CL on 0-6-2008 0:23 PM

A question about Lyrics of Audiobook

The Lyrics of a MP3 song works fine.
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Anybody is encountered by this issue?
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