[davidfor]

Originally Posted by vrf

I had thought that each zipped mp3z had to be in its own folder, not just dumped in root. That seemed to be my experience, although maybe my standalone file had that extra extension mentioned above.

You can definitely put them all in a single folder. I think I originally dumped them in the root directory and then moved them later to check that worked.

I wish we could get the device to see the file as a Kobo audiobook, so we could use the real player with bookmarks and such. Has anyone tried peeking at the guts of a real Kobo audiobook and seeing what it's built from?

I did have a look when doing this originally, and discussed it with someone at Kobo. It isn't going t work. It isn't as simple as populating the database with appropriate records, there are other things going on.

I would encourage everyone that wants to listen to sideloaded audiobooks to tell Kobo. I think it is in their best interest to support them as that will encourage people to buy these devices, and I think they will get some audiobook sales from people who get used to listening to books this way. I don't think it would actually decrease the audiobook sales. if anything, I think it would increase sales (but have no way to prove either side of that assertion).