Hi Cathy, If you want to read the MP3 books with the Music app you would have to use iTunes to sync them to your device. They will, as you guessed, show up in the music library in iTunes, but here you can highlight all the files, then press Control+I for "Get Info" and in the Options tab find the combo box for Media Type. Here change the type from Music to Audio Books, then tab to OK and activate it.
Doing this will move the books into the Books library and if you then connect your phone, go to the Books tab and either check to sync all books or selected books, you can then sync them to you rphone. If you now open the Music app on your phone double tap the More tab at the bottom right and you will have an Audio Books category which you can double tap to see your books. I would highly recommend that once you have added the files to iTunes and you select them and go to Get Info that you also put the Author in the Artist field and the name of the book in the album field. This is under the Info tab. I would then go to each of the MP3 files individually and make ure to give it the correct number in track number otherwise your book may not play in order. If your book consists of many MP3 files I recommend that you either use the free software application "Chapter and Vers" which allows you to select all the MP3 files, convert them to M4B which is the iTunes book format and the software then combines all the files into a single file which at the end of the process is automatically added to your iTunes books library where it will be ready to be synced. You could also make a zip folder of all your MP3 files and, if you use Dropbox, copy it into a Dropbox folder and then use Voice Dreamreader to listen to your book. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:05 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How do you put mp3 books on the i-phone Hi, My friend and I are wondering how to put mp3 books on the i-phone. We assume that because they are mp3 files, that they will to into the music but after that, do we create a folder called books for the mp3 books? I guess I am wanted to know step by step on how to put these kind of books on the phone. she has a 5s and I have a 5 i-phone. Thanks for the info in advance. Cathy & Pilot Dog, Tiny: -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
