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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
So you have to have a theme installed to have a decent book listing? and can they be used with folders so like in the example Roos had you can still have the authors come up in a list?
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Whoa!
There *is* a list mode in the default theme for the older Pockebooks(The PB360 comes with 3 themes on it if I recall correctly).
It's just that the denser list (easy mode) is not an option on that one.
So you don't *have* to install a theme, just change the view mode to "LIST" which, BTW, is the mode in the videos from the trade show demos. The default theme features LIST, thumbnails, and Cover views.
Cover view presents nine tiles with the cover of the ebook (Most of the time--some ebook covers don't display properly) and some metadata underneath.
Thumbnails offers strips with a thumbnail on the left and the metadata on the right.
Easy mode just presents a single-line list with Title, author, and plus tiny icons for book type, opened, finished, etc. The Title scrolls if its too long for the available space. It's very nice. The moment I saw it I adopted it. Other folks prefer the thumbnails or the covers or find the text in easy too small. Its mostly a matter of preference.
Edit: A picture being worth a thousand words, check the screencap of easy mode here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...3&d=1271319310
From Kacir's excellent PB360 review (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61908) this, is the normal list view:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...9&d=1258049965
This is thumbnails view:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...0&d=1258054803
And this is the covers/tiled view:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...9&d=1258054803
And yes, the view modes have no effect on your chosen folder structure. You can still organize the file system anyway you want.
View modes also apply to the "Favorites" link structure.
Of note, in "Favorites" (which is a collection of links, so you can link to the same book in multiple locations) you can link to specific files or to *folders* in the file system, as well as creating Folders in the favorites hierarchy.