keeping place in an audiobook

When you are sure that your folder containing your audiobook files is not writeprotected. You still have to mark all your files in iTunes and choose view info and in properties choose remember position yes. After clicking ok check again if it remembers your setting. If it does not - your folder is write protected. If it is not try in iTunes view info to change the mediatype to audiobook. Check if it remembers your settings

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..

updating to iOS 7.0.4 didn't fix this problem for me. I still constantly lose the position where I left with the audiobook. And it seems that in some cases playing starts from previous place I was left earlier and sometimes it just starts from the beginning.

Maybe I'm late in entering this, but I just updated to iOS7 on iPhone and iPad and this problem just started. I tried everything else everyone said here to no avail. Strangely, I found that if I select the audiobook from the audiobooks in Music App while it's already playing (e.g. I'm listening to Count of Monte Cristo in the Music app and I re-select the same Part that's already playing) then it starts saving my position. This has worked on both the iPad and iPhone. Personally, I suspect it is a conflict with saving music positions during sync because they always were returning to the last synced position. Good luck - hope this helps.

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 Heycas - It works for me.

To recap for anyone else you need to remove write protection from your master files. Like this

1. Go to the folder on your pc that holds your audiobook. ( Probably C:\itunes\itunes media\author\book name ) .
2. Right click on book folder and select "Properties".
3. Properties pop up window should show the "General" tab. If not select it.
4. At the bottom of that tab next to "Attributes" make sure "Read Only" is un-ticked (or un-checked if you're American)
5. When a confirmation screen pops up make sure that "Apply to this folder, sub folders and files" is ticked.
6. And finally syncronise your device. For me I had to un-sync that Audiobook then re-sync it.

Obviously you need to ensure the "Remember Playback Position" option has been ticked like everyone else has been saying.

Since most of my Audiobooks are my own CDs that I have ripped these have all automatically saved themselves as read only.

For info I am using Iphone 5C on IOS 7.1.2.

Cheers!

Thanks. This is the answer!

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?

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