I've downloaded several audio books from Overdrive, the library site for free books. I can transfer the books to my iPod with no problem but they don't always show up on iTunes when I connect my iPod to the computer. I'd like to delete the books from my iPod but don't know how, since they don't show up on iTunes. What do I need to do?
iPod classic
My guess is either you’re looking in the “Books” section of your iTunes source list while it considers them “Music” (since they’re just MP3 files—iTunes has no idea what kind of content they are), or vice-versa if I’m wrong about that. I’m not familiar with Overdrive, but I assume it loads the MP3 audiobooks into iTunes and lets it handle them. So check under both “Music” and “Books” in iTunes.
Failing that, you can try adding them to the On-The-Go Playlist on your iPod (find them on your iPod, press and hold the center button until a menu appears, and choose “Add to On-The-Go”), and then that playlist should appear in iTunes when you sync your iPod, and you can delete them from your library with command-option-delete.
Hi - thank you so much for such a prompt reply! However, only 2 books appear in iTunes, both are under "Music" and "Recently Added" - one of those two is on my iPod (the last one I added from Overdrive) and the other one does not appear on my iPod. My iPod does not seem to go to an "On-The-Go Playlist" when I hold the center button down - it's an old one. I must have a pre-On-The-Go version. Do you have any other ideas?
I should have asked this before anything: Do you have your iPod set to manually manage music? Click on it in iTunes and look at the checkboxes. Also, on your iPod, how do you get to those books you want to delete? In a playlist, or in the Audiobooks section, or in music albums…?
I thought even the first iPod had On-The-Go. On the iPod classic (which is where you posted this 😝), you hold the center button on a selection, and it opens a menu with “Add to On-The-Go” as an option. On older iPods, there’s no menu, the selection just flashes to tell you it was added. That playlist is at the bottom of the playlists on your iPod, and if it’s empty, it gives you a short explanation of how it works.
So this is the easy way! I still can not get rid of these books on my old ipod.
What gives i should be able to press delete?
question about books downloaded from Overdrive to my iPod
