Updating music in my Nano

First time iPod user. How do you have your nano pull only the songs out of iTunes that you want to put on it?
(I ripped a dozen or so cd's into iTunes, then put put them on my nano, then I deleted them from iTunes as my hard drive was getting full, next time I plugged my nano, it updated with iTunes and removed all the songs from my nano that I had deleted from iTunes. Anyway to fix this?)
I only want to keep music on my hard drive long enough to put on my nano.

Yes. See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer on different ways to copy music from your iPod to your PC.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
I would suggest the manual method over using 3rd party software, but the choice is entirely yours.
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