"All Music" syncing all audiobooks. How to avoid?

Question

I want my entire music library on my nano (I upgraded to a 16Gb), but I don't necessarily want all my audiobooks on there. The problem is that when I choose "Entire Music Library," every single audiobook I have adds as well (this is 5-6 Gb). If I choose "selected playlists, artists and genres," the audiobook issue is solved, but then the sync is driven by my playlists which are set up to rule out things like "Spoken word" (like radio dramas) to keep my iPhone from being too full (ah, the joys of having multiple MP3 devices).
Aside from deleting audiobooks or changing their type to, say, iTunes U, (which would in turn remove them from the "Audiobook" menu item), is there a way to control which audiobooks are synced while ensuring that anything NOT considered to be an audiobook IS synced?

Answer 1

Hello Xian,
I'm not sure what you mean by driven by playlists, but I am assuming it has to do with Smart Playlists, correct? Otherwise, if not, I don't know why or how syncing one iPod would affect another that you also happen to be syncing to the same iTunes library.
When you sync your entire library to your iPod, have you tried enabling the option to only sync "checked songs and videos" option from under the iPod's Summary tab? This will keep your iPod from syncing anything in your library without a check mark next to it.
Perhaps, you would like to check out this article as well, for more information and methods regarding how to manage multiple iPods/iPhones, with one computer.
[How to use multiple iPods with one computer|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495]
Hope this helps.
B-rock