How to download an audiobook into I-Tunes for your I-pod
1) Open I-Tunes
2) insert your first disk in the cd audiobook into the disk drive
3) When your I-Tunes shows the CD, open that folder so that you can see all of the tracks.
4) On the drop down file at top, click on edit; preferences; Advanced; Importing. Choose "Import Using - AAC Encoder" and the "Setting - Spoken podcast" and select OK
5) On the list of Tracks, Right click the first track. Choose "Get Info". (For the purposes of explanation, I am going to say that I am copying the Bible, because it's a short name.) Select the "Info Tab". Under Name, rename the track "Bible Disk 01". You can also add things like what year published, who the author is, etc. Click "OK".
6) You will be back at the list of tracks. Hit "Control A" which should select all of the tracks.
7) With all of the tracks selected, go to the drop down "Advanced" menu at the top of the screen, and select "Join CD Tracks".
8) Click Import.
(It's not ready yet.)
When the import is complete, go to your "Music" file. (It may also show up in your Audiobook file - different versions of I-Tunes vary.)
1-b) Right click on "Bible Disk 01".
2-b) Select "Show in Windows Explorer"
3-b) Right click on the file, which will be named "Bible Disk 01.m4a" in Windows Explorer, and select "Rename".
4-b) Rename this file "Bible Disk 01.m4b", then close that window.
Go back into your music (or audiobook) file and click on "Bible Disk 01". You will get an error message that says "Cannot find Bible Disk 01, would you like to locate it?" click yes, then click on the Bible Disk 01.m4b file. Your disk will play. When you play this book on your pod and stop, it will bookmark your place so that the next time you turn it on there will be no fast-forwarding needed.
Repeat these steps, naming subsequent files Bible Disk 02, 03, etc. Be sure that when you are "finding" the file for 02, that you don't select "01" and rename it. You might have to "go up" a file folder to find 02.
Hope this makes sense...
Nancy, it sounds like you have your "Shuffle" set to automatic. If you copy the disk with tracks joined (without all of the other stuff to make a bookmark) you should eliminate that problem.
Once the download is complete, you can also right click on the disk in your music (or audiobook) file and go to "Get Info". There you can insert artwork, in the "options" tab you can choose to not have the book play when shuffling songs.