I love my touch ipod as well. I download audio books from itunes and from audible.com (a subsidiary of Amazon.com)... I have an external charger cord and speaker cord and can lug it into my auxilary sound system in my car and charge it at the same time. I listen to audio books while I'm driving back and for to my office every day. I put 100 miles minimum on my car just to and from work every week... and I love listening to books instead of music I don't like or the same news story repeated 8 times.