There's this awesome feature in iTunes/iPod for Audible books. When you listen to a book, it remembers where you left off. This syncs between iTunes and iPod so as you listen to the book in the car, at work, at home, etc, it always knows where you are.

I got a bunch of audio books from Adam in mp3 format and mp3 doesn't support this bookmarking feature. I just found this cool applescript (Click here) that lets you turn any AAC file into a bookmarkable audio file.

So now I just take those mp3s Adam gave me, convert to AAC (menu option in iTunes) and now I can listen to them on my iPod with bookmarking so it knows where I left off!

In other news: my 20GB iPod is almost full. Once I get to the point where all my music can't fit on my iPod anymore, I might switch to an iPod mini. 4GB is more than enough for any trip, and there are many advantages to the mini:

longer battery life
nicer buttons/wheel/feedback
smaller and lighter

The buttons on the wheel are very nice. I hope they move that interface to the larger iPod soon.