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Practical, step-by-step answers about building audiobooks from your own files.

How to make an M4B audiobook from MP3 files, with chapters
A folder of MP3s plays, but it does not behave like a book. What an M4B is, how to get order and titles right, which bitrate to pick, and what to do when a player ignores your chapters.
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How to add your own audiobooks to Apple Books on iPhone and Mac
Apple Books plays audiobooks you did not buy from Apple, but only if the file is the kind it recognizes and you bring it in through the right door. Here is what the app needs and each route onto the Mac and the phone.
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