I really appreciate the effort to create a proper audiobook player as I have been through a lot of audiobooks in the last few years. I normally use PoketTunes on my Palm Zire 71 and have been looking forward to being able to use the N800 to listen. Alas not yet.
Since an audiobook is often more than 20 hours long, I will sometimes spend a month or so listening to one book. When I use Audible or Pocket Tunes I simply turn on the application and press play. I really do not want to load the same file every time I open the player. With Panucci I have to navigate to the file I want to play every time I start listening. Unless of course I leave Panucci running all the time, which I am sure will not be good for battery life.
The Bookmark feature leaves me puzzled since they disappear when you turn off the application. What is the intended use of this feature?
The advantage of breaking up long audiobooks into small segments becomes very obvious once you lose your place and have to find it again. Not being able to use playlists or automatically play all files in a directory is a definite drawback.
I will gladly pay for a functioning audiobook player, but as Panucci stands it is very unlikely that I would ever use it.