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Old 09-26-2010, 06:59 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
The initial setup is only hard for the one's who have an existing large ebook library and insist on loading that entire library on the device immediately after they receive it. As popular as that type of user is here on MobileRead, I guarantee it represents a much, much smaller percentage of Kindle owners on the whole.
Yes, this! I only meant the initial setup was the hardest part in the sense that I had downloaded 30 or 35 ebooks and needed to go thru them individually determine which collection(s) an ebook should go into. Despite that, it was still a much easier exercise to create the collections on my Kindle than it was to go thru the effort of loading that many books into Calibre, assign tags to each individual ebook, and send them to my Sony reader.

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Originally Posted by jlmwrite View Post
Ah, but this is my point; we shouldn't HAVE to resort to clumsy tricks and workarounds and other kludgy solutions to sort and manage our collections. Even DOS 1.0 used a directory/subdirectory structure. (And that idea came from unix; what decade is this, anyway?)

No disrespect to sbtx99, but why should Amazon make the initial setup "the hardest part" for you and and the rest of us?
And no disrespect to jlmwrite, but the "clunky" solution in Kindle at least gives me a flat view of ALL my collections at a glance. Who wants to traverse up and down a complicated directory/subdirectory structure on a device that doesn't have a touchscreen or a mouse attached to make it easier for moving around? I'd rather create a few simple collections that can be seen at a glance, and not waste time moving up and down a tree like structure searching for a particular book.

ETA: Of course, my frame of reference is in comparison to creating collections for my Sony prs-300 (an apples-to-apples comparison). Not comparing it to creating folders on my laptop or smartphone with pointing devices & touchscreens.
Last edited by sbtx99; 09-26-2010 at 07:20 PM. Reason: ETA
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