How to stop syncing books on ipad

Hi all,
I have this weird problem where I want to manually handle ebooks/epubs/pdf's on my iPad 2 and iTunes 10.5 does not allow me to do this.
I select the iPad in iTunes, then go to the 'Books' tab and when I deselect 'Sync books' and hit apply it asks "Are you sure you do not want to sync books? All existing books on the iPad will be removed". I then hit "Don't Sync Books" and iTunes seemingly does something, however, after it has applied the supposed changes, the same checkbox That I just deselected ('Sync books') is selected again, indicating that the next time I sync my iPad it will sync the ebooks again. It just prescribes me that I HAVE TO sync books. But I DO NOT WANT TO sync books because it means that I have duplicate files, one copy on my harddrive and another one in the iTunes library. This is redundant data storage and totally unnecessary And a waste of storage space. Can anyone tell me how I can really turn off the book syncing?
Much appreciated,
Fazza

Hi and thanks. That works and at least the book shelf is now empty. However, iTunes still does not allow me to drag files directly from the Finder to the iPad. The books/pdfs still have to be in the iTunes library for me to be able to drag them onto the iPad. This tying users down in Apple applications is starting to annoy me. I have a perfectly organised file and folder structure and I know where my stuff is. I don't need a piece of software that babysits me and forces me to use *just that* software to always open a file. What if I want to use GoodReader or something else?

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