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Originally Posted by Marcy
I want a combination of Sony's collection model which allows one book to have multiple tags, and therefore have a single copy of that book to be in several places, and the simple and naked folder support of my PB360.
I love the speed of my PB360 and the ability to sort my books how I like, but I would love to be able to have it sort under multiple tags. Currently to do this, I would have to put multiple copies of the same book on the reader. While this isn't a problem for storage, it can become an organizational nightmare.
-Marcy
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Marcy:
What you want is trivial with the calibre + calibre2opds + trook combination. And it would be just as easy with ANY device -- if only the OEM firmware would support OPDS files.
This feature alone got me to switch to a nook. I liked the speed of my PRS700. I liked the touch interface. I liked nearly everything about it. My complaints were these:
- Lack of support for access to a large library. Sony's UI was simply inadequate once I went beyond 200 books or so.
- Speed of the library scan. More accurately, the abysmal, glacial slowness of the library scan. For which there's absolutely NO EXCUSE, btw. And that's a professional opinion, with plenty of experience and training and academic credentials to back it up. Their programmers messed it up, plain and simple. (But I digress...)
- Display quality. Having the touch screen in front of the eInk layer degraded clarity too much.
By comparison with my old PRS700, my nook is lacking in many ways. It's slow. The hardware is nowhere near as spiffy. But...
- I get convenient access to my entire library, sliced and diced however I want!
- The display has greater clarity, due to the lack of the touch-screen layer.
And those two things were enough to jump ship. Sorry Sony.