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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sure you know this, but permit me to point out anyway that collections aren't folders, but rather are tags. When you tag a book as being in a collection, it will show up both in the collection and in the main library. This doesn't mean that it's duplicated; the book is only stored on the device once.
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Thanks for the clarification. When I was using the Sony Reader Library (SRL), I tended to think of collections as folders since the SRL interface encourages that. Calibre encourages that you think of collections as being based on tags.
Since I've started using Calibre I've come to see the advantage of arranging my ebooks with tags rather than folders. It allows me a great deal of flexibility when arranging my ebooks into collections, and mass rearranging my collections is fairly simple (such as splitting one large collection into two or more smaller ones).
For me, tags are similar to categories in PDAs that use the Palm OS. Rather than putting applications and data into folders, in the Palm OS you assign a category to each item. When accessing your applications and data, you just call up the appropriate catagory or you can just list everything.