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Jack Tingle · 10-02-2010, 09:05 PM

A Beginner's Guide
by A. Beginner

Collections are just groups of books arranged by tags. For example, if you add the book to the collections "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Werewolves", "Erotica", it would appear four places. What happens in fact is the big flat file of all .azw, .mobi, .prc, .mbp, etc. files has an associated database. In that database the file has those tags associated with it. When you look at the screen, you'll see those (and other) collections, and inside each one is the book you tagged.

PDFs and collections are orthogonal. You can put a PDF in a collection, or have a collection named "PDFs", but it doesn't really affect much else. A PDF is just a book, so far as organization is concerned.

Organize them however you please. Suggested collection titles: "prOn", "skiffy", "Vanilla", "Infrastructure", "fantasy", "Mystery", "erotica", "literachure", "IsRussian", "OBE", "junk", "oddGenre", "theLifestyle", etc. Since a book can be part of more than one, but it's just a big database, there's no cost to have a book in "IsRussian" and "theLifestyle" simultaneously.

You're welcome.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

10-02-2010, 09:05 PM	#3
Jack Tingle Punctuation Fetishist Posts: 557 Karma: 1070000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The Bluest Commonwealth In East America Device: Kindle PW, Nexus 7 (2013), Galaxy S5 phone, Galaxy Tab 4 8.0	A Beginner's Guide by A. Beginner Collections are just groups of books arranged by tags. For example, if you add the book to the collections "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Werewolves", "Erotica", it would appear four places. What happens in fact is the big flat file of all .azw, .mobi, .prc, .mbp, etc. files has an associated database. In that database the file has those tags associated with it. When you look at the screen, you'll see those (and other) collections, and inside each one is the book you tagged. PDFs and collections are orthogonal. You can put a PDF in a collection, or have a collection named "PDFs", but it doesn't really affect much else. A PDF is just a book, so far as organization is concerned. Organize them however you please. Suggested collection titles: "prOn", "skiffy", "Vanilla", "Infrastructure", "fantasy", "Mystery", "erotica", "literachure", "IsRussian", "OBE", "junk", "oddGenre", "theLifestyle", etc. Since a book can be part of more than one, but it's just a big database, there's no cost to have a book in "IsRussian" and "theLifestyle" simultaneously. You're welcome. Regards, Jack Tingle Last edited by Jack Tingle; 10-02-2010 at 09:08 PM.