Syncing books deletes music

I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
When I try syncing books with my iPad, I get this message:
"Are you sure you want to sync books? All songs, movies and TV shows on the iPad will be removed."
Currently, I have "Manually manage music and videos" checked.
So now if I try to sync books, all the music I have on my iPad gets deleted and the the check besides manually managing music is removed.
Is there a way around this?
It's frustrating for me that when I purchase a book through my iPad and want to sync it with my MacBook Pro (so I can create a backup for it when I want), if I sync to my iTunes, that I'll lose my music all over again.
Any help on this is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Fantastic, worked for me! So I guess there's no such thing as "manually manage books" which is something I was expecting.
Thanks, Niel, for your help!

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