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Originally Posted by chameleon

thanks for your replies.

However I already realise I can drag and drop onto the Sony 600, that was the first thing I tried, but it doesn't retain the folder structure: ie it just compiles all the books in one LONG list, which I then have to endlessly go through in order to re-categorize as 'Collections', you cannot drag across folders with folders inside them eg a cookery section folder with authors folders inside it...it doesn't recognize folders at all!...that was my problem.

Also the fact that it randomly renames files which makes it very hard to find them amongst hundreds listed?

I have d'loaded Calibre but am not sure if it will solve the problem as it seems to be the way Sony have structured the reader itself...Collections should allow you to reorganize the files themselves into respective folders, not just point shortcuts at the original files... that would allow for folders to be dragged.

Has anyone else had a problem with arbitrary renaming of files, especially pdfs?

thanks

I haven't had this problem with most PDFs I load in Calibre, in the Sony Reader Library, and on my ereader. A possible factor in this is that I make my own PDFs for my ereader using StarOffice (the commercial version of OpenOffice.org) and it allows me to edit the ebook's title in its properties. That title will appear when I load the ebook into Calibre, the Sony Reader Library (SRL), and my ereader.

The only quirk I've found is that if the title has a "-" in it it may show the part of the title after the "-" as the author when the book is loaded into Calibre (easily corrected with a quick edit). Other than that, the title appears unaltered when loaded in the above locations. Also, I've used a free program called "BeCyPDFMetaEdit" to edit the metadata in my PDF ebooks, allowing me to set the title and the author.

I haven't had a problem with the use of collections to organize my ebooks on my ereader and on my computer. I've found it a much better way to arrange ebooks than folders since it allows the same ebook to be placed in many different collections and it allows faster reorganization of my ebooks. Also, I've found that Calibre's use of tagging is much better method of creating and organizing ebooks into collections than the SRL method of creating collections and then dragging and dropping ebooks into them.