Keeping certain files separate from my music files - is this possible?

Hi iPoders,
I have a lot of "courses" - books and spoken stuff
and meditations that I would like to put on my iPod classic (120)
But I do not want them mixed in with my music.
I was hoping that I could have put them into the "audio books" catagory, but it seems I can't do that.
So then is the best way to just put them in a play list?
(or can I drag and drop them into the audio books section?)
And if I do that, and then hit shuffle in the main window of iPod, will they be included in that shuffle?
I hope that makes sense.
I really want to keep them separate and choose to listen to them when I desire.
Thanks for the insight.
carmen

With iTunes 8.x and above you have the option to tell iTunes to treat any audio file as an audiobook. Simply select the tracks, *Get Info.*, then on the options tab set *Media kind* to Audiobook. You can also set options to *Remember playback position* and *Skip when shuffling*.
Assuming, however, that the books consist of more than one file you may have problems if you plan to listen to them on an iPod. The Audiobooks feature was originally designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file and hasn't been updated to reflect the changes that now make multi-track audiobooks easy to work with in iTunes. The main issue is that the iPod lists all audiobook files by track title/chapter name so unless you rename every track using a scheme such as *Book Title, Chapter XX* the tracks will play out of sequence. There are tools for creating iPod-friendly audiobooks for which Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference. Personally I don't bother with the extra effort and just have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook. Although I still mark the files as Audiobooks to keep them out of my main music section when it comes to the iPod I ignore it's Audiobooks feature and use my own playlists for access.
Note that I've used leading digits in the playlist names to arrange these in chronological rather than alphabetical order.
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