How can I get iTunes to recognize information imported from media as audiobook vs album?

I imported a series of audio cd's that contained lecture material into iTunes.  It sees these disks as albums not as a single set of audiobook portions.  Therefore, everytime I listen to a portion of the lecture material, I have to remember exactly what disk and track I left off on.  However when working with audiobooks, iTunes apparently knows to place a bookmark where I left off so that when I choose the book, it starts where I left off.  How can I get this behavior for my lectures?

If they're MP3, use iTunes to convert them to AAC (M4A) and then use a batch renamer to change the extension to M4B. THEN they'll stay where you left off.
If they're AAC already, then just change the extension to M4B.

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