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It's... Too... Late... You have already gathered an armload of books and thrown them onto your Kindle. Now you'll never, ever be able to dig your way through the electronic shelf stuffed full of e-goodies because you'll continue to dump a book here and a book there on top of the unorganized stacks. RUN AWAY QUICKLY!
OK fine: you have lots of options.
You already know about organizing using Kindle's somewhat limited 'collections' tool. It's up to you to decide what's most meaningful to you: by author, genre, unread, etc. Everyone organizes their collections by what makes the most sense to them. If you're brave, you can also try either the Kindle Collection Manager or Kindelabra to help better organize your collections via your PC. Both of these are home-grown software and have some limitations but help those of us with a large number of collections.
What I've done is to first group my collections by author and series (ie, "Nelson DeMille - John Corey series", "Nelson DeMille - Paul Brenner series", "Patricia Cornwell - Kay Scarpetta series", "John Sanford - Lucas Davenport series", and so on.).
Then for authors who don't have series -- like the vast majority of Stephen King's books -- I just create a collections with the author's name (ie, "Stephen King", "Bill Bryson", "John Grisham", and so on).
Finally, I have some books grouped as genre such as "Emergency medicine", "Critical care medicine", and "Masonic books". This still leaves me with a ton of one-off novels but it is what it is.
I generally keep my Kindle sorted by collections. When I'm trying to find the last couple of novels I've added, I'll change my sort by date. This isn't a perfect system by any means, but it's a workable solution 'til Amazon sees fit to give us a better method.
Perhaps some of the amazing contributors here may have words of wisdom to help. You may also want to try to read some of the older posts about collections to see if anything sparks your imagination.
Now go read a book!
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