I can't tell if you are trying to create an AudioCD or a data CD. My go to app for such work has been CDBURNERXP for over a decade. But the details here are too slim to guess if this is some old burner issue or something procedural.
Bob
I have tried three different kinds of software (Ashampoo, Nero and PowerISO), but every time I attempt to make a data CD of these free books or stories, I either get the message right away that it doesn't recognize the file (PowerISO), get it after the CD has burned and therefore been wasted (Nero), or get it ahead of burning but then the burn only produced one good track (a shorter file- a poem, using Ashampoo).
This is very frustrating. Do any of you have experience with this? I'm asking the data to be verified first, which at least saves the disc for another time. I don't know why these files would be out there, on big sites, advertised as being available for burning to CD, and then not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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