[mweier]

interesting - hadn't heard of that one; I've found Quick Convert from http://dougscripts.com/itunes/script...p=quickconvert which is another (free) option to batch convert mp3 to m4b -- I know how to do that; He's got another script there which can merge multiple into a file. Any books I buy from now on, I'll be sure to rip straight to m4b.

Just confirming that there's no way to tell the iPod not to forget where it was. E.g. my car stereo knows where I was at in the last cd I was playing.

Would be cool if ipod supported manual bookmarks you can tag to any file but clearly not an option without m4b conversion.

Oh well....