Sorting audiobooks on ipod

hello,
so i have downloaded an audiobook and imported it into itunes. i have converted it to m4b. so now my audiobook appears in itunes under audiobooks. so i go to my ipod select the only audiobook i have. then it shows me about 300 tracks that make up the audiobook. when i play it it shows 1 out of 1 being played. i have searched everywhere on how to fix this.
hope that made sence
many thanks andrew

Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference for all things audiobook. The main problem is that the Audiobooks feature is really designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file. Personally I haven't bothered to make the extra effort and jsut have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook.
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I got iPod classic 80 GB and I have old mp3 audiobbok "10 chapters", so I converted it to m4b "10 m4b files" then I put it in the right place on the itunes and sync with my ipod without ant problems.
_So my problem is :_
my audiobook has 10 chapters and they appear on the ipod like 10 Audiobooks !??
But I want to appear like one audiobook and when I open it I want to see 10 chapters
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{anyone has informations about this program plz write it down}
Finally, sorry about my bad writing

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