That’s exactly what the script does, minus the last step :-)

You are certainly right about that, Hugh. I just checked and IE works as well. Interesting point: I just tried to insert those versions of the feed URLs into this entry, and WordPress changed itpc back to http!

You could of course also let FeedBurner handle the feeds, if you don’t mind taking a dependency on an external service. Though if you want to do a feed per book that’d be a lot of registration overhead.

Incidentally I just checked my pre-ITConversations podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonUdellFridayPodcasts

As I’d forgotten, it uses pcast:// rather than itpc:// to invoke iTunes. What a tangled web we weave.

“I wonder if people who don’t know what to do with a zip will know what to do with a feed…”

(http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=115204)

I replied there but will echo it here because it’s of general interest. iTunes does not make its podcatching feature easy to discover outside the context of the iTunes Music Store.

I whipped up this little screencast to show how you use that “advanced” feature:

http://jonudell.net/movies/librivox.mov

I bet there are a whole lot of folks who might want to make use of that feature but don’t know that it exists.

the good people over at http://podibooks.com offer you the choice of how often you get your chapters delivered – a customizable audiobook podcast schedule – and we have some books on their system. but i think the preference will likely be to get it all onto your own machine, and then decide when you wish to listen.

Could do. I’m not sure that’s wanted, though. My guess is that most people will want to have all the chapters available at one go. It’d be interesting to hear from someone who does prefer the episodic experience, though.