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Originally Posted by tompe
Of course it is less work. The hard part with folder support is to implement a good user interface and even a browser that shows the directories is more work than just globbing the files.
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I'm not sure that I agree with you. Implementing a simple folder browser isn't difficult. Simply display the contents of a folder and have two different icons to represent files and folder. If you "select" a book, open it; if you select a folder, move down a level and display its contents. A flat list is considerably more work, because you have to keep track of the actual location of everything you're displaying, allow for duplicate names in different folders, and so on.
I am convinced, personally, that not displaying folder trees was a deliberate design decision based on market research feedback from the intended user base. Of course, that's just a personal opinion and I have absolutely no evidence to back it up.