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Old 08-12-2011, 04:16 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
If you put the entire Baen CD collection of ebooks on an ereader--limited to a single format of choice--how would they be sorted? Folder per CD, so you wade through a couple-dozen folders, trying to remember which CD name corresponds to which series? How are the ebooks organized inside the folders--is it easy to note sub-series, or are they all in filename order, or renumbered in chrono order, or release-date order?

If a person also wants a collection of fanfiction related to some of those books (the Vorkosigan Saga has inspired several excellent novel-length stories), where should those be placed; how can the nav system identify them as related-to-these-other-books?
It's for these reasons that many current reading devices have gone for collections - ie, tags - rather than folders. It makes it much easier to organize your collection by multiple attributes.
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