Auto-syncing Audiobooks.

Hello, 
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
Is there a way of auto-syncing Audiobooks to an iPod other than having them all synced across? At the moment I'm manually managing music and video which means I can just copy the few audiobooks I want at any given time but I would like to be able to take advantage of play counts/ratings on the music side since I do 99% of all my listening on my iPod touch.
I would very much welcome any tips.
Much obliged.
mrtotes
Message was edited by: mrtotes

I don't have audiobooks checked in the 'Music' tab
Most likely because there is no audiobooks to check in the music tab unless you created a playlist with audiobooks.
Click the Audiobooks tab and uncheck everything.

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