If the quality is not good enough to want to convert it to an m4b audiobook and/or you do not have or want chapters one mp3 is almost as handy.
Since itunes 8 you can finally designate a file (say a big mp3) as an audiobook rather than a music track. So any file can now be made to be listed in the audiobook menus.
Previously the best possible option was to tell itunes (and hence your ipod) that the playback position for a file should be remembered (so that if you play partway through a book - then play some music - when you return to the book it continues, rather than starting it afresh).
Audiobooks have this remember playback position property set by default, as well as not being played in random selections.
So if your audiobook is one mp3 files you can alter this property or designate it as an audiobook via the info dialog.
Display a file's info properties by a right click on it then select Get Info in the pop up menu.
(Or you can use the File menu and chose Get Info)
Under the Options tab you can update the file type, or just set remember playback.
You can update the value for many files at once in this way, but if you copy the files to another PC these add on settings will not be recognised.
Once you make an m4b file that will be recognised as an audiobook by every ipod/itunes.
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