Initial sync of Books will wipe out all music???

I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3, and I'm running the most recent version of iTunes.
In iTunes on the Summary page for my phone, I have "Manually manage music and videos" selected. I have loaded up my iPhone with about 10 gig of music, which took a lot of time to select, drag and drop over onto the phone in iTunes, etc.
Now I have a PDF that I want to add to my iPhone by adding it to the Books tab, checking 'Sync Books', and moving it onto the phone. The problem is that when I check 'Sync Books' it warns me that "Are you sure you want to sync Books? All existing songs, movies, and TV shows on the iPhone will be removed".
I certainly don't want to have my music deleted because then I'll have to re-install it all.
Even though I have "Manually manage my music selected", why is this Book Sync option still trying to delete it?
Is there another way to get a PDF onto the iPhone without syncing it?
Any help would be appreciated.....
Thanks,
John

I manually manage my music because I have about 60 gig of music in iTunes, and only around 10 gig of space on my iPhone. So I just dragged my most important music onto the iPhone because I don't want to sync all of the music that I have in iTunes. It won't even fit....
So, now that I've been manually managing my music, what you're saying is that if I turn on the option to sync books it will wipe out my music and I'll have to do it all again? Obviously you're correct from what I'm seeing with that warning messgage, but that seems absurd to me. I don't understand why the two settings are not independent of each other.......
So...........There's no way around this?

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