Can I slave my iPad to my iMac's iTunes ?

It seems I can only sync the iPad like an iPod, when in fact it is basically another network device on my local internal network.
I wonder ... why can't I add the iPad to my ITunes servers client list and browse media on the network like say I can browse content on my iMac from my MacMini?
Does that seem logical or not? Is there a way to do that?

But that is the whole point of putting content on the machine with the bigger resources to serve it. The iPad theoretically should be the ideal device for an iTunes server. This iPod implementation of iTunes on the iPad seems stunted to me. I don't want to have to store or download or sync every little thing I might want to watch or listen to on my iPad ... managing and syncing is a lot of work, and there is a one size fits all limitation in the way content is handled.
For example - podcasts. Some podcasts are like news programs, you want to maybe listen to them once and get the newest ones. But others are like sets of programs ... like some of the iTunesU class podcasts where you want to save all of the episodes so you can refer back to them. The usage that the iPad suggests of iTunes and the iPad's potential is really not met in this design of iTunes on the iPad.

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