Any way to keep audiobooks separate from eBooks?

I have an extensive collection of ebooks (formerly in LIT form) that I've been collecting over the years. I also have more than 40 audiobooks from audible. Any way to keep these separate in iTunes? Some are books with the same name (an audio and text version of the same book) and sorting/searching is getting cumbersome.
In particular, sometimes I want to sync a certain audiobook to an iPod (a nano, so syncing the whole collection isn't appropriate), wihle I want to maintain and organize my ebooks on my iPad. Now that they're both in the place in iTunes, it's incredibly annoying.

Start by creating a few Smart Playlists, based on the Media Kind of the entry, like in this screenshot:
At the least you'll create two, one for Audiobooks and one for Books. This will let you look at one or the other in iTunes. You may have others you'd like to create, based on genre, tags you put in the Comments field, etc.
For your device-specific sync settings, iTunes already has separate controls for sync'ing books vs. audiobooks. You shouldn't have any difficulty keeping them separate, but if you do, here again you might find Smart or normal Playlists to be useful. Sync against a playlist, instead of using the Sync All option.

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