Since I’ve been listening to a few Audio Books lately, I’ve noticed rather quickly that many of the places you download Audio Books from allow you to only download in .mp3 format. The problem with this is that when you add these .mp3 files to your iPod it doesn’t know that they are Audio Books, so it wont remember where you listened up to the last time, and it wont neatly categorise the .mp3 in the Audio Books menu, and wont let you alter the playback speed.

I found this free Mp3 to iPod Audio Book Converter, which will convert any .mp3 file into Apple’s .m4b audio book format, and so far the results are pretty impressive. Unfortunately it currently only works on Windows, and isn’t available on any other platform.