keeping place in an audiobook

If I let my iPhone 5s sleep while listenng to a book, it will come back on where I left off. If I actually turn off my iPhone 5s while listening to a book, it will start up again playing some music album. I have to find my book, guess what Part I was listening to, and then find my place.

Even finding the Part is difficult. The Parts list for a book only shows in portrait mode. That is not wide enough (for many books) to display the Part number. I can't figure out how to change it.

I found a rather cumbersome workaround with this, as I was getting frustrated with this. Some of the audiobooks i had contained chapters that were almost 3 hours long, and trying to find one's place was ridiculous. What i do is, when i am done listening for a session, i take a screenshot, as it displays chapter and time elapsed. Then i can find my place by matching up the time. It is a bit tedious, but it definitely works.

Not exactly a fix, but a workaround.

Thanks for this. I finally figured it out. I, too, have mostly audiobooks from CDs which I painstakingly rip, and then change in info>options>media kind to audiobook. At least, finally, all my audiobooks are in one place.

But I wish--are you listening itunes developers?--that anythiing that is labeled 'media kind' AUDIOBOOK would have as a DEFAULT 'skip when shuffling', and 'remember playback position'. That's logical, right?

It looks like the new iOS 7 has solved this problem. I've been listening to audiobooks on my iPhone for the last week and not once has it lost my place! Finally!!

For me, update to iOS 7 just started the problem. I'll let it play a while, and when I wake it up to the lock screen, it jumps back to where it was when it auto-locked.

Disable writeprotection from your folder containing your audiobook files.

Hmmmm....help me out with that. I look at properties and it isn't 'locked'. Where else do I check. Thanks much.

I'm not sure what everyone else's experience is but with the most recent iOS update (7.0.4) I have not experienced this problem and I listen to audiobooks every day..

Thanks. This is the answer!

This helped! I accidentally marked another one as having helped me, but this works!!