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Old 10-14-2010, 10:17 AM   #13
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IIRC, Kovid's experiments demonstrated that the only way to change collections over USB was to write the collections.json file (the "file somewhere on the kindle"), and then require that the kindle be rebooted (or restarted or whatever they call it). The reboot step is considered beyond acceptable. If new info surfaces about how to avoid the reboot, I am sure that collection support will be revisited.
Yes, I have no motivation to implement this since it requires rebooting the device on each connect. Plus, there is no way to specify collections when sending books via email.

Frankly Amazon's implementation is rather poorly thought out, from the perspective of people that use the Kindle for reading non Amazon documents.
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