I was pleasantly surprised to find that the latest iTunes patch, version 9.1.1, fixed a problem with Audible audiobooks on my iPhone and iPod Touch.

Previously, whenever I added new content from Audible I would lose my current place in whatever audiobook I was listening to. The next time I listened to the audiobook it would start playing at the beginning of the book. I know that it seems like a nit, but since I subscribe to a couple of daily Audible “podcasts” (Charlie Rose FTW, w00t!), it was a nit I encountered almost every day.

Nice to get some noticeable value for my 102 megabyte “patch”. Considering that the bug was introduced at about the time OS 3 was released, and OS 4 looms just around the corner, I wonder if I’ve seen the last of this one. Audible announced (well, twittered) a couple of months ago that they were working on supporting wireless downloads on the iPhone — will we finally have an app for that?