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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I've never done this either but if you use zip it seems to me that it could get written over by an added html file. Might be best to use rar.
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This definitely works as I have used that technique myself. It does mean that on extracting the book from Calibre the audio files then need to be extracted from the RAR file - there is no Calibre help for this stage. I guess it would be nice if there were devices that could play the sound files directly from the archive but I have not heard of that being a feature on any players.
However one huge downside to using Calibre as a repository for audio books is that they tend to be MUCH larger than eBooks (by a factor of ~1000), so that the size of your physical Calibre library on disk balloons rapidly. One has to decide if this is more of a hindrance than the benefits of the cataloging provided by Calibre. I tend to store AudioBooks in their own area outside Calibre's library, but then add an AUDIO tag to the Calibre entry to note the fact I have a book in Audio format.