2 ipod's and 2 Computers

I currently have an ipod Classic 120GB sync'd with my primary PC. I'm getting my daughter a Nano for Christmas. She has a laptop which she'll use to load and sync her songs.
If there are certain songs on my PC that she wants, is there a way to put them on her ipod without re-burning the CD's all over again on her laptop?
I was hoping that Home Sharing would do this, but it looks like that's only useful for playing the songs on the computer itself.

If you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer or with more than one library you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply. The content of iTunes and the iPod are not syncronised in this mode so the two can be different. You can directly access the content of the iPod and play it through iTunes and you can drag and drop whatever you want to the iPod from either library:
Using iPod with Multiple computers
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Syncing Music to iPod
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

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