Sent this on to Amazon, and got a nice Jeff-Bexos-executive-team-thank-you reply... Hopefully of some use to them - and these couple of features would be some use to me
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Just got my Kindle - really like it. Much better screen than my old Sony eReader, and the best part - it hooks directly into Amazon, so I can buy buy buy

You guys are the only reliable bookstore, and i love that you're wanting publishers to do more eBooks - this is the way to read!
However, the support for sorting 'series' of books is awful, and really sub standard - this is just something that I can't believe that Amazon have missed out on improving, because you guys are normally such forward thinkers.
I can see that you're updating the firmware regularly. Please can you give some thought to updating how series of books work in collections.
For example, I'd love a 'couple of tier' or 'folder' system to make it as easy to use as possible. Your current system is great for people who do 'ad hoc' things, but not OCD people like me

And, I'm sure, other eReader fans. Oh, and I think that as more people get Kindle - and more people by EVEN MORE ebooks - they'll demand a better filing system. You're in the position to rule the roost with some really good things.
But remember - you also need to keep it simple. What you have now is simple, and it needs to be that way. What I'm suggesting are 'optional' things that people can use to optimise their kindle experience.
The problem:
Currently, if I want to make a 'series' a collection, and say I have about 10 series, then that would take up my first page! That's a bit silly, I'd love my first page to be much more useful, and to let me switch from 'thing to thing to do' rather than be a plain ol' boring list. Amazon is home to millions of books, come on guys, you know I'm going to be looking at more than two things on my Kindle at a time!
The basic few sort options you have don't work if people have more than 10/12 'collections' - and I know that 'nested' collections will be most useful for people.
The solution 1: Folders and collections update
Tags is where its at

Add a tagging system that users can access. Whether this is on the Kindle itself, or if you can bring out a 'helper' application on the PC. Allowing tags to work will help minimise the number of pages people have to dial through. For example:
- I could tag \ folder at a high level: Sci-Fi, Documents, Fantasy, Horror, All Other Genres
- Then I could have the series 'Dr Who' and Star Trek: TNG' under Sci Fi, and file the relevant books under there. A couple of 'standalone' sci fi ones would be just sitting in the Sci-Fi folder 'root' bit. And of course, I'd have my own Docs in Documents, perhaps filed under 'work', 'home', 'must read' and so on.
- This frees up space at the top level for things like Newspapers and the daily delivered things; things that I find awkward to locate due to my couple of pages of series \ collections already there. And let's be honest, you WANT to sell Newspapers? If this isn't fix, I'll cancel my 13.99 subsciption to a paper, because I can't be bothered to click NEXT a few times, or trawl through 'top level' titles until I get to the daily paper. Yup, I'm lazy, but I'm a lazy customer. If you cater to me, I'm more likely to spend *laughs* We're buggers, aren't we!
The solution 2: Kindle Home
Something else that might come in useful is a Kindle Home page. It could be the thing you get to when you push Home, instead of top level of collections. (Of course, you could *choose* for it to be your home page, you could make it so you can choose Home takes you to this, or books, etc.)
KindleHome is a new 'front page' which could do the following:
- have a link to your 'newspapers' - so your daily subscriptions are only a couple of clicks away (likewise, magazines, etc.)
- have a link to your 'library' - and see above Solution 1 for further guff on that
- have a link to 'last read' - to jump you back in
- have a link to '5 most recent items' - things you've either looked in, or added, or have been delivered
- 'what's hot on Amazon' or 'new releases' - a quick jump to the store to see what's newly added
Just some ways that might make an excellent experience even, eh, excellenter. Hmm. Better go and check that out in the Kindle dictionary...