Finding place where left off on audiobook

I've imported audiobooks from CD to my nano. When switching from the audiobook to music, my place on the audiobook is not saved when I try to go back to if from the music. I usually can't remember which track I was on while listening to the audiobook. Is there a setting I can change to keep my place marked?

With audiobooks, you can have your iPod remember where you were on the track. Go into iTunes, and select the entire book (all the tracks). Right-click (PC user), and select "Get info". Click on the "Options" tab. Check the box next to "remember playback position" and click Ok.
That should do it. If you can't remember the track you were on, though, you'll just have to scroll through them until you get to the one that's not at the very beginning...that's the one you were on.

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