flintbobbi,
You sure can record a book.
I bought the $100 Riovolt mp3 disk player instead of the $500 iPod
because alot of my money went into the downpayment of the Burgman.
My Macintosh's iTunes (also for Windoze) application gives me the ability to choose the compression rate for each selection if I want.
This way, I can choose Not Too Much Compression for music (uses more disc space) or Mucho Compression (uses less disk space) for speech, like a Talking Book.
CD-RW's can be re-mixed at will, by copying back into Macintosh, re-arranging, adding then re-burn it!
You can arrange music (low compression) and speech (lots compression) together on the same CD.
My Mac iTunes doesn't care if it's a Riovolt or another computer that plays the finished CD product.