For me, the Kindle has one major disadvantage. No, I'm not talking about the price or the wait to get one, as I managed to justify both to myself: it's the lack of on-device file organization. I've had this thing for almost 3 weeks and have accumulated about 150 books. This means flipping through 13 pages of listings, sorted by author, title or most recent download (yes, I know you can search instead of flip).

What I'd like to be able to do, under "Books" is create subdirectories and organize my books (New, Old Favs-Mystery, Old Favs-SciFi, Old Favs-Historical, Old Favs-Lit, NF-Economics, NF-History, etc etc). I don't want to have to pull the books off the Kindle and store them on my hard drive, the point of having the device is to indulge myself by carrying a mini-library around with me.

The Kindle sorts by Book, Periodical, so it has some file structure, why not more? Is this the kind of thing that could be changed in a firmware/software update, or is there some larger underlying issue?

yes, its a highly desired feature

-d

If you have a SD card then this provides another listing option (internal, SD, both).

I agree that directories would be best, but, based on what the Desktop MobiPocket Reader provides, what we may get is listing by Genre. This isn't nearly as useful.

If you have a SD card then this provides another listing option (internal, SD, both).

I agree that directories would be best, but, based on what the Desktop MobiPocket Reader provides, what we may get is listing by Genre. This isn't nearly as useful.

I have a 2 gig SD card - I moved about 1/3 of my books onto it, hoping that was true, but the only way I can tell whether a book is on the SD card or in Kindle memory is to go to Content Manager and it'll tell me there - otherwise, when I look at "Books Only" I see all my books, no matter if they are on Kindle or on the SD. My Kindle is the 1.0.4 version, maybe this is a change?

I keep a .prc file with all my books categorized the way I want on my Kindle. I can't go directly to the book but at least I can make note of the title and then go to it manually.