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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
I feel obliged to point out that this "basic feature" is not present on iOS devices, and is normally not apparent on Android devices. (Yes, there are some Android apps that expose the file system, but by and large, Android apps follow the iOS precedent of handling the file system for you, out of sight.)
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You know there were and still are many people that wont buy ios devices because of it. But you are wrong about Android, reading apps on android have access to file browser and enable you to use your folder organized library just fine.
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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
Not everybody likes digging through folders when they can use a search or define their own shelf (aka Kindle "collection", Win7 "library", etc.); many people are content to let the device/OS handle that stuff behind the scenes.
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Not everyone likes many things that appear too complicated. What I don't like is that the most basic and easy to use feature of any operating system is being misrepresented as "complicated" in attempt to dumb down users and push through the idea of shelves, collections or other crappy misrepresentations of "user friendly" organization system. Those systems in general require by far more work from users than folder organized library. But... in favor of Kindle collections- there are many a script to create them with one click out of your folder structure, which you can not do on Aura, also all shelves and collection organizations are single level, where folder structure can have as many as you like or need.
Unless we have electronic books all uniformly tagged with author, title, genre, series, number in series, and have our readers not only sort by those, but also display them as lists, so it is not the same 100 page list all the time, but list of clickable genres, or authors, or series... we do need file browser.