Free Software Audiobook format?

I would think this is a feature of a player. What format are your books in? For example the Music Player Daemon (MPD) remembers where you paused (or even just closed, will resume play!) it.

In Trisquel, you can use the movie player and in preferences pick "start reproduction from last point". That should do what you want. As for portable media players, they support that themselves.
Hope it helps =)

The most prominent audio formats, you can choose from:

• FLAC (recommended - maximum compatibility, maximum quality)
• WavPack (for maximum audio quality, features hybrid lossy/lossless coding, less widespread than FLAC)
• Opus (recommended if low bitrate is your priority, suitable for both audio/voice coding)
• Ogg Vorbis (for general lossy audio coding, "probably" succeeded by Opus)
• Speex (intended for lossy coding of voice, succeeded by Opus)

Totem has the feature to resume playback from the point, where you left off, built-in.

If you're interested in multimedia formats in general, you can find my recommendation here.

Thanks guys.

I generally have used VLC, but I'll definitely try out Totem again (and MPD again) for this purpose.

I like keeping things in FLAC myself if possible. I anticipate people will one day be very sorry they have so much material in lossy formats.

Gracias.