How to Make Audio Books

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this topic but I have a 80 GB Black Classic and was wondering how to make a audio book to add to my iPod.
I have several audio books on CD that have numerous chapters in them. Is there some type of conversion program to convert these to files that can be loaded onto the iPod or are they just mp3 files when added? If they are just mp3 files, will they load onto the music playlist or how due you make them show up in the Audio books menu?
Adding files from a CD does not seem to be a problem as far as converting or ripping them to iTunes to be then synced to the iPod, but I do not know if a different type of file is needed other than mp3 to be able to play them as a audio book.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance
Mr. Hoz

If you had a Mac, you could take it a step further and add chapter like Audible does. I came across a a AppleScript called Join Together which uses a tool from Apple called ChapterTool. Basically, you select the files to join and run Launch Join Together from the iTunes script menu. A dialog box pops up allowing to set the Artist, track info, release year, Album, etc. It also lets you set the output bit rate, frequency, and stereo/mono. It will either output a .m4a file (music) or a .m4b file (audiobook). If you have Apple's ChapterTool install, it will have an option to add chapter names based ont he song titles.
Example: I have a dramatized version of the NIV Bible which wad a separate mp3 file for each chapter. So, it was broken into 1189 files:
Song : Album
Genesis 01 : 01 Genesis
Genesis 02 : 01 Genesis
Genesis 03 : 01 Genesis
Exodus 01 : 02 Exodus
Exodus 02 : 02 Exodus
Exodus 03 : 02 Exodus
Revelation 20 : 66 Revelation
Revelation 21 : 66 Revelation
Revelation 22 : 66 Revelation
After using Join Together, I now have only 68 .m4b files, one for every book except Psalms which I split into three parts (001-050, 051-100, 101-150). Now when I select oneof the books on the iPod, a list of chapters are shown except for r the 5 books that only have one chapter (Test: name the 5 books without looking them up. .
I in the proces of doing this for more books which I kept the individual chapter files like _Teach Yourself Norwegian_ (2 CDs) and two _Birding By Ear_ books (3 CDs each).
For some reason the Join Together script errors out about 10% of the time and I have to re run it. I haven't tried to troubleshoot the issue, yet. Also at the beginning when it starts to join the tracks, the script plays all of the files being joined all at the same time for about 10 to 30 seconds. What a noise that is!
Enjoy life,
Steven

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