Hi All, If any of you are audiobook listeners who play your books from the music app, the Bookmark app is free today. This is specially valuable for any of you who are coping with the lack of support for chapters and chapter navigation in audiobooks in iOS 7+iTunes 11. Although the Bookmark app has not been updated in a long time, it still works accessibly under iOS 7 (and iOS 6 and earlier). While it can't get around the failure of iOS 7 to recognize or let you navigate by chapter markers, which is the subject of a very lengthy and ongoing thread on the Apple Support Forums, it does let you set multiple bookmarks in your audiobooks, and also navigate with variable time step intervals using the accessible time ribbon slider. (You can also customize the time steps if you don't like the default intervals of the clicks on the slider, which range from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.). This is much better than trying to scrub through the entire book using the default slider you now have in the music app in iOS 7. Since it works from the music app, it handles both audiobooks that you created yourself, and audiobooks with DRM purchased from the iTunes Store or Audible. (Though if you listen to Audible books you can avoid the iOS 7 Music app problems by using the Audible App, which supports chapters if you download your Audible purchases from the cloud.)
There are also other nice features like being able to set a sleep timer with a customizable interval so that if you're awake when the timer stops playback, you can rock your phone to get another 5 or 10 minutes of playback. This not only works on older iPhone or iPod Touch models without Siri, but is also useful because you don't have to use Siri (and possibly wake someone who is sleeping nearby) if you want to continue your audiobook listening. The bad part of this is that along with the app going free, the developer has announced on his web site that it will no longer be supported (unless another developer is interested in picking this up.). It was basically a labor of love from someone who wanted better features for his own audiobook listening back in 2009, when there were very few options available. His regular job is unrelated to this app, and he no longer has time to support this, In fact, the app has not been available in the App Store for a few months before today. So, I'd get this while it is still available. Here's the App Store URL: • Bookmark (used to be $2.99, now free) by Dockmarket LLC https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmark/id326290323?mt=8 HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
