My local library had a "garage sale" this weekend and I picked up a bunch of old audio books on CDs. I want to import them into iTunes and put them on my iPod Shuffle. The audio book I decided to try ... Current shuffles may be different, but I used to just create a (non-smart) playlist with what I want to listen to in the correct order, and sync (just) that playlist. You then delete items from the playlist before you synch again with new stuff. It worked great. I never tried this with "audio books:" all of my content was imported from CD so I just managed it like any other music. Now, if only I could put podcasts onto a playlist like I used to. Craig