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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I'm considering the NC for future (and possibly past) magazine reading.
I'd like to be able to organize B&N-bought magazines and sideloaded magazines according to title and date (possibly by year as well). Will the shelf system allow me to do that?
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Steven, back to your question from our side discussion about zinio... I had some time today to make a screenshot of how the magazines are organized.
The NC Library has a shelf called "magazines". On this shelf you can mix your BN purchases and sideloaded content. I attached a screenshot of my magazine shelf. The Smithsonian and Wired Magazines are my sideloaded content. I created them using calbre's Fetch News. The US Weekly is my guilty indulgence purchase from the BN store.
I have sorted the magazines by Title. It uses the metadata for Publisher for the Title sort (not the magazine title). It groups like magazines sideways on the shelf from newest to oldest (left to right) as you can see for the US Weekly magazine in my screenshot which has 3 issues. Note: If you have different magazine titles by the same publisher, then it will group them on a single shelf unless you edit the metadata to change the publisher name to the magazine title.
Another observation is that when I do a "Most Recent" sort, it groups the BN content first and then it groups the side-loaded content after the BN content. Thus on a Most Recent sort, your BN and side-loaded content are not mixed up like they are on the shelf title view.
You can also create custom-named shelves where you have more flexibility to group by years, magazine title, subject or whatever else you desire. On the custom-named shelves, all of your types of data like books, magazines, periodicals can also be mixed up and sorted together in any way you like. See the icons across the top of the image in my screenshot. You can group data by type of content (e.g. books, magazines, newspapers). Or, you can group data all mixed up to your customization in "my shelves".
Hope that helps! The NC really displays magazines beautifully with the color images compared to my e-ink ereaders. And, I really like the cover flow views.
EDIT: FYI - The "my files" category is where you could view your nested folders because it shows you the file structure.