How do I back up files that are only on iPod?

When I had a Powerbook G4, audiobooks were taking up so much space that I set iTunes to stop syncing between the computer and the iPod. I only wanted the many GB of audiobooks to stay on the iPod. From then on, I manually dragged podcasts and music from my Library to the iPod.
Now the iPod is full, and I want to remove the audiobooks from the iPod, but first I want to save them to a CD/DVD. It doesn't seem possible to do that. I don't want to delete them, because then I'd have to pay for them all over again. I like to keep podcasts up to date on the iPod.
The other possible catch is that since I bought that iPod, I now have a MacBook Pro. Maybe the iPod won't let me copy the audiobooks back to my new computer because it remembers it came from my old computer? (They share the same name, "Geoffrey S. Knauth's computer.") I can't reconnect the old computer because in June I reformatted it and gave it to our exchange student who returned to her home country after a year with our family.

You can copy the files back from the iPod and back them up once they are on your computer. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve information from the iPod. This is just a small selection of what's available, you can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Senuti Mac Only
PodView Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
iPodDisk PPC Mac Only (experimental version available for Intel Macs)
iRepo Mac & Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac & Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac & Windows
There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod

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