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Do it from your phone and use bluetooth to connect phone/device to the car

Just put the audiobook on a usb memory stick and stick it in the usb port.

I have an iPhone that I use to listen to Audible content. Like sandman suggested above, I use Bluetooth to send the audio from my iPhone to my Model S, and this works great for audio books with Audible as well as other apps such as Rhapsody.

Thanks for the bluetooth suggestion, that should do it.

As for putting in on a usb stick, the format is encrypted, so I doubt Telsa will be able to decrypt it, but I'll give it a try.

Yes, I too frequently listen to Audible books on my iPhone via Bluetooth. Will be nice if/when a future software update will allow us to control our iPhones via the 17" screen and also offer speed-sensitive volume adjustment (like BMW) to enhance our listening experience.

I also listen to Audible books on my long commutes.

In my previous car, I would convert the audiobook to CD - and listen to it on the CD. The car would remember the place where I last listened to the CD, even when I switched from CD to radio, satellite or hard drive.

Currently, with the Model S, the only usable solution appears to be using a Bluetooth connected device. If you copy the audio book to USB, you risk losing your place in the book, if you switch to a different audio source - and getting back to that spot in very long books is too difficult with the Model S UI right now.

I've copied all of my personal music to a USB thumb drive - and have my phone running the Audible application in the background all of the time. With my phone connected, when I select the phone in the audio source list, it resumes the book from where I last stopped - even if I switch audio sources. Plus, it will automatically pause when the car stops, switch audio sources or place a phone call.

While it would be better to have Audible available as an app in the car, this solution is workable - and has one nice advantage - the phone always knows where the current bookmark is located - so I can listen to the book on my phone even when I'm not in the car.

A nice feature for a future software upgrade would be for Tesla to enable "bookmarks" in files on the USB drive or the built-in memory - so that it would go back to where playback last stopped (maybe only on long audio files) - and if they had that feature, audiobooks would work without the phone.

But until then, Bluetooth to the phone works pretty well.

FYI - also found that you can listen to voicemail in the car by selecting the phone as an audio playback device while the voicemail app is running.

The Blue Tooth works great until it drops the connection. I have to be quick on the phone's pause button or it will keep playing and I lose my place. The phone is a Galaxy S3.

Anybody else have that issue or is it my equipment? Is there a way to test whether its the phone or the car ?

@GaryOrlando - I have no issue at all with Bluetooth from my GS3, and my wife has listened to her Audible books in the Model S using her Galaxy Nexus over Bluetooth. The only complication is you have to manually switch between phones which are paired.

Gary, I've had that issue before, but usually only 5-10 second dropouts at most.

I've found the 30 second rewind button to fix anything I might have missed, you can set up a widget so it's available from the default unlock screen, or if audible is running it's an option on on the pull own screen as well.