transfer CD audio book I bought in a store onto my iPod touch

Oops! I didn't mean to post that so soon.

That's what happens when you hit the wrong button, while responding to texts on the phone!

Back to the Catalogue that I was discussing. In the right hand side of the screenshot in my previous post, the albums are displayed, in this case, by musician. In your case, it would be by author, or presenter (note that I'm trying to use the same terminology each time). Then, under each "album" (in your case, book or show) is the list of tracks for that album.

The key to this is to have the relevant information filled in for each track, be it music, a radio show or a book. Here's a screenshot of one track, while I'm in edit-the-track mode:

In the screenshot above, the left hand side displays the shows (or books) and the panel on right hand side shows the details for one track (episode, individual show or book chapter). My example is using the track Underground Bristol. In that right-hand panel I can edit information for this track only. (There is an easy way to edit common information for several tracks at once. We can talk about that later). The orange numbering links the field in the right hand edit window with the main display on the left:

1. 1. this is the Artist field. In your case, this would be the author, or the radio show presenter. In the screenshot, both shows are from (the "artist") BBC Radio 4. Note the second show (Soul Music) is by the same artist as the show above it, so the artist name is not shown again.
   2. this is the Album field. In your case, this would be the book title, or radio show series
   3. this is the Song field. In your case, this would be the book chapter title (even if it's simply chapter 1, chapter 2 etc.), or the episode title of the radio programme, or even the episode airing date if there is no title (whatever makes sense to you)

Notice the two boxes I've ringed:

• • Grouping - you can type in a keyword (of your choice) that can help sort individual episodes. Personally, I don't think you need this field at this time because there are standard methods for grouping, or arranging episodes and shows, which I'm outlining here now
  • Genre - this is a very useful field. In your case, the genre will be used to indicate the type of book, such as Thrillers, or Romance or Biographies, or the nature of the radio show. The text in the genre field is not fixed in stone, you can use any word you like in here. Once used, it will appear in the drop-down list of genres. By then displaying the Genre section of your Library, you can see all the books of that one genre in your Library as one list, without anything else in that list

I think that's almost enough for now.