Audible Files and conversion to MP3

I have had an Audible membership for a few years now. When I was working full time in the city I used to listen to Audible books on my HP 2210 PDA.

Now I listen to the books on my PC. With the latest installation of VISTA on my PC I did not even bother to activate my PDA for Audible.

Yesterday I was thinking about how Nikki, my 12 year old daughter was not reading any books at all and how I could interest her into reading a book. I decided that perhaps it would be a good idea to introduce her an Audible book that she can listen to on her SamSung YP-K5 MP3 player.

I immeadetly proceeded to Audible and found that Samsung YP-K5 was not supported! I then tried to find a way that I could convert the Audible .aa file into MP3 file format. After searching for some time on Google I realized there was no ideal solution to this problem.

I am a strong believer in anti-piracy. In fact all my software at home are registered versions. However by not supporting all MP3 players in the market Audible is forcing people to look for alternate means of converting their files into MP3 file format.

I will update this page if I find a good solution for this.