Create audiobooks for iPod

This tip will enable you to create one-file audiobooks for your iPod. The audiobooks are categorized as audiobooks in Itunes and on your iPod, and in addition it lets you create chapters based on the original files and/or based on time intervals. On your iPod it is possible to skip between the chapters.
This tip is for Windows only.

You need three software packages:

• The iPod ABC (iPod Audio Book Converter)
  http://www.sjhaley.com/ipodabc/Ipod%20ABC.msi
• Nero AAC Encoder
  http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php
• Slideshow assembler
  http://jrlearnsmedia.com/blog/articles/ssa-downloads.aspx
  

Run the setup for iPod ABC and Slideshow assembler. The open the zip-file containing the Nero AAC Codec, and extract the encoder files into the directory where iPod ABC was installed. Do not extract them to sub-directories as this will prevent iPod ABC to automatically discover the encoders.

Start the iPod ABC, and verify that Nero conversion is enabled (middle, rightmost part of the screenshot).

Now you may add the files that comprises the audiobook, choose how you want the chapters to be defined, and specify an output file. Pressing the run-button creates a m4b file (AAC audio book) that you should import in iTunes and then sync to your iPod.

Note that you can download free audiobooks on http://booksshouldbefree.com/