I almost panicked back in March when I began having some weird problems with my iPod. It all began when I was listening to an audiobook version of George Orwell’s “1984”. It seemed that letting the iPod go into sleep mode after listening to the audiobook tracks caused a problem. The result was that the iPod was difficult to wake up from it’s sleep. I had to manually restart it each time. The timing was coincidental with moving the book files to my Pod and I thought that this may have something to do with it.

I managed to get through 1984 and after removing the audibook files, the problem went away. I then began listening to the audio version of “Tale of the Otori” and the problem began again.After much searching, I found a thread on the iPodLounge forum that referred to a bug in the iPod OS. Mono bookmarkable (these are files that remember where you last left off listening) apparently cause the iPod to go into a sort of coma. Upgrading the audiobook files to stereo format resolved the problem and restored my faith in my iPod.