No good way to manage podcasts

I'd like to select the option to only keep unplayed episodes, but if I accidentally listen to a few seconds, or if I'm in the middle of one, it gets deleted when I connect to the computer.
So I selected keep last 10 episodes. This worked great until I decided to grab a few dozen old episodes from a site I'm interested in. ZAP! - only 10 episodes show up on the Ipod. Sigh...
So now I'm back to manually managing all my podcasts - what a drag!

You could just set it to Keep All Episodes, then
delete them when you are done with them...
That's what I'm doing now. But the "perfect" solution would be for the iPod to "know" that I have listened to a track all the way to the end.
I'm able to stop listening to a podcast, switch to something else, then later resume (most of the time) where I left off. So currently, if I decide to listen to the first bit of several podcasts, the option to "keep all unplayed episodes" is pretty worthless. And as I mentioned in the original post, I pretty much have to manage them by hand.
Another annoyance is that if I pause in the middle of a podcast, then don't return for a couple days, the iPod shuts down. BUT when I turn it back on, it's forgotten where I left off. It resumes play either at the beginning or at the place where I previously left off.
-Tom

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I was happy with having my PC download everything and then sync it to my iphone, the iphone would then relate back itunes which ones I had listened to and I could sort them and delete them on PC. With the app however my phone is always wanting to download and manage the podcasts which was annoying but I started downloading them on the iphone instead, which actually works pretty well. However, now when I sync them to my PC the PC has downloaded the same episodes, notices that I don't have those episodes (auto delete on iphone) and repopulates episodes I have already listened to deleted.
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I am a Podcast fan as well and understand the desire to keep everything clean and organized. The there is a great Frequently Asked Questions article for Podcasts that I would recommend you reading over and using as a resource for both iTunes on your computer and your iOS device.
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