Welcome to the community ^_^

I'm apix, and you'll soon know me as the guy who writes essays for answers lol (just ask Tgirl). So without further delay...here we go:

Bookmarking is a feature that is exclusive not so much to the device the audio book is being used on, but the filetype itself. .AA (audio books) are the only true format of both audio books, and the ability to "bookmark". Being that Audible.com holds the license to .AA's the only place you'll find a true audiobook is from them. Now other places, Net library, Overdrive etc have "Audiobooks" but in .wma format as they can't infringe on Audible's filetype without their consent.
Now until the Fuze, if you had a Audiobook that was not in .AA form, you were pretty much out of luck. Luckily with the Fuze this is now an attainable feat.

Advantages of the Fuze:
Non AA files can now be placed in the Audiobook folder on the Fuze's main system hierarchy
Files placed in the Audio Book folder will act as a AA would to an extent

How to:
Take your Audio book file (if it's not a true AA) and drag and drop (or copy and paste) into the Audio Book folder on the Fuze. (This can be found by going to My Computer and Double Clicking on the Fuze)
Once you have placed your "Audio Books" into the Fuze, disconnect it and check the Audible section of the Fuze itself. You should see you transferred files in this section now.
You will now have the ability to pause the file at some point and resume it later, be it after you turn the player off, go and listen to regular music, watch a movie etc.

Let me know if you have any questions, or if i missed something and I'll be happy to assist

Again, welcome to the community... and sorry for the essay :)

The send to or move command really wont work.. though copy should. Are you right-clicking and selecting copy or Ctrl C?

Right-o, so do you mean file extension? And what would be the right file extension, perhaps .aa? Always learning here....
I'd not been using my Fuze while listening so I'd not lose my place, so this would be very nice to figure out! thanks!

Jill

Ok, I guess I didn't explain clearly. This only works Only if the audiobook is in mp3 format. Right click on file. The properties box comes up. Click on the Summary tab. If the "simple" box comes up, click on advanced, then type in audiobook for the genre.

If you are ripping your own audio book, use a id tag editor to name all the track albums the same and rename the tracks sequentially. Then when you place the tracks in the Audiobooks folder on your Sansa Fuze or Clip they will all show up under one name and the whole thing will play in correct order. For example I start by renaming the files to 01-01, 01-02, etc for disk 2 it would be 02-01 and so on. Then I use the file names to rename the Track id tags. I use Tag&Rename to do all this but there may be better editors available. The Chapter Mode On seems to allow you to skip to the next track / file. With it Off it is a safeguard to prevent accidentally jumping from where you are currently listening. I think I would leave it off. You can fast forward / reverse in any file. I think the main differences between files in the Music folder and in the Audiobooks folder is this next track protection and the hierarchy of the file display.

I use Tag & Rename to first rename all tracks to disk-track (01-01) format. Then I rename all tracks to same format (can be done with one click after file names are set up). I also rename all tracks to uniform album name and rename all titles to the same as track name. This sounds like a lot of work, but with Tag & Rename, it can be done in about 2 minutes.

I download from the Ft Worth library using their program called Overdrive. Books download fine to computer. Computer(using overdrive) doesn't download to audiobooks in Fuze 8. Help. computer illiterate. Babyfat

Hello everyone!!! Just got the e260 and I downloaded books on there but when I get to play them it says

OD said: HI! I am new to blogs and mp3 players... Just got a 4gb Fuze and downloaded a few sermons. Somehow some have an Album Name, but some are . Is there a way to name/ rename the album? Thanks for your help!

Hi

You need a "tag editor" to access the data fields hidden inside the .mp3 files.  There are loads out there, some mentioned in this thread.  It should be possible to get a freeware/gpl one.  

Greetings

I have a sansa clip+. I imagine it's about the sams as the fuze.
The issue is about the same as some of the others listed here. One issue i didn't see mentioned is when I download audibooks from my local library and sync them via windows media player the books become listed on the sansa by the author's name. I always have to click on the author's name to figure out what book is attached.
I tried to get the names of the books to appear without the authors name but no luck.
Anybody have any suggestions on this - how to have the audiobooks listed by title instead of author's name?

I download an audiobook using Overdrive. I've tried MP3 and WMA. When my Sansa e260 is connected to my PC, I see an Audiobook folder with my book. But, when I disconnect, the book is just listed in my music folder. I'm trying to figure out how to listen to a book without having to start at the beginning of a Part everytime. Do I need to get a Fuze or will this player do that? Thanks for any advice.