How do I remove Audiobooks from Iphone???

Unlike Podcasts or music, audiobooks seem to be always put on the iphone even after they have been listened to. I cannot seem to find any way of getting them off the iphone after I have listened to them besides removing them from my itunes library or changing them to some other media type. Anyone figure this one out? Why doesn't Apple allow you to check off whether you want individual audiobooks put on your phone in a manner similar to podcasts???
Message was edited by: Lou R
Message was edited by: Lou R

Thanks for the suggestion and I can certainly do that but it seems less then ideal. I actually already had set my iphone to only sync selected music playlists and until I read your suggestion I didn't realize that a new playlist had been created and checked to sync! I wonder why Apple treats Audiobooks inconsistently from an interface point of view to podcasts. Both show up as Library items in the Itunes pane, both have special category buttons to access in the ipod application and both store the listening position you were at when they sync back to itunes. Yet when it comes to how to specify sync preferences to the iphone one has it's own tab (podcasts) that allow you to a number of useful options such as ALL, SELECTED or ALL UNPLAYED and audiobooks get a playlist that only shows up on the iphone music sync panel and is either all in or not ???! Wow Apple's UI watchdogs must have been asleep at the wheel! I would have expected the exact same treatment as podcasts perhaps just putting another listbox of books and the same choices as podcasts on the same tab in the iphone sync UI panel.

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