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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Speaking of To Be Read list (at least I assume that is what you are talking about), I'm a bit frustrated with the current situation with managing audible books. I tend to be a list oriented person. For example, I listen to audiobooks a lot in my car and like to keep them in a playlist on my iTouch. Of course, since audible audiobooks don't come from Apple, you can't see them in a playlist if you use iCloud. I solve that by simply not using iCloud on my iTouch. That works well enough for that specific purpose, but I do use iCloud on all the other devices that I might use to listen to audio books. I really, really wish that the audible app supported the concept of playlists and was better able to handle syncing between devices. Well, maybe we will see something when the new iOS comes out.
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I don't understand the problem here. The audible app in my iPhone and iPad downloads the audiobook directly from Audible.com. The book used to come to the phone in two parts but recently, they've sent the books in a single part. So there's no need for a playlist.
What I'm struggling with is to understand how to work with the free audiobooks from SYNC (which are currently in the Overdrive application on my PC) to the iPhone -- which app to use to listen to them, how to transfer them, and how to construct a playlist since these are multiple MP3 files. I'm assuming that iTunes (on the PC and/or on the iPhone) will play a part, but so far I have not figured out exactly what to do.
I also have a "classic" iPod -- the first model which supported video, even though it had a 2.5-inch display. 'Twould be an interesting challenge to put an audiobook onto it and then just leave it sitting on the treadmill. I definitely don't want to carry it around with me since the iPhone works so well, but I had to have a piece of unused gear around.
Still listening to
The Map That Changed The World by Simon Winchester. Now in the middle of chapter 5 (of 9), so I've crossed the 1/2 way mark. This book has long chapters -- each one is over an hour long!