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Originally Posted by Tiersten
The Kindle just dumps everything into one directory. You can have subdirectories in there but it doesn't care and will just show everything as one big list.
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But clearly the OS has the capability of using folders already so introducing any other organizational method is adding yet more code and, at this stage, code that is barely "better than nothing".
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
I think that the reason they did not simply implement folders, as on a pc, is because with the lack of screen real estate, you could not easily show the entire folder hierarchy, and people would end up down in a folder, then call CS complaining that most of their books had disappeared! There is certainly no room for much indentation, etc.
Although it does seem like there should be a way to have multiple levels in Collections.
Personally, I don't keep all that many books on the Kindle at one time (only 12 or 13 pages worth), not my whole library, so I've never really been interested in a heavy-duty organizational system. I just back everything up on my pc, in folders by author.
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Yes, I do the same thing, in fact I have the folders/files on my PC organized by authors and, in a separate folder, by title and, in yet another folder, by subject. Exactly what Mr. Bezos is trying to avoid.
However, if the OS supports this organization isn't any other method going to introduce overhead on performance, memory utilization, and general inefficiency? And isn't the current method inadequate for most users?