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94dgrif · 12-18-2010, 08:17 PM

Hey all

I'm new to the world of eReaders - literally less than an hour with them! I'm trying to set up my wife's birthday present - her new Kindle 3 Wi-Fi. I want to load all of her revision material, which are mostly personally typed text files, with some PDF lecture slides, and several more exotic files (Excel etc). I've resigned myself that the best I can do with the exotic files is to use a PDF printer to convert them to PDFs for her to read through. Though that's a headache for another day.

Basically I've dragged and dropped the text files into the documents folder of her Kindle from my computer. I've gone to the Home screen of th eKindle and verified they're all there and readable. However they are all spread out en masse without any order. I'd like some advice to my options for sorting these to make them easier to find and digest. If it were a PC I'd just move the files for each school class to a different folder, but I doubt the Kindle allows subfolders. I suspect I'll have to make use of the Author field by somehow assigning an 'author' to each file, which would be a pain to do for so many files but I am willing to do it.

Does anyone have a solution to my problem? Would it work for PDFs as well as text files?

12-18-2010, 08:17 PM	#1
94dgrif Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle 3 Wi-Fi	Text/PDFs with Author Field Hey all I'm new to the world of eReaders - literally less than an hour with them! I'm trying to set up my wife's birthday present - her new Kindle 3 Wi-Fi. I want to load all of her revision material, which are mostly personally typed text files, with some PDF lecture slides, and several more exotic files (Excel etc). I've resigned myself that the best I can do with the exotic files is to use a PDF printer to convert them to PDFs for her to read through. Though that's a headache for another day. Basically I've dragged and dropped the text files into the documents folder of her Kindle from my computer. I've gone to the Home screen of th eKindle and verified they're all there and readable. However they are all spread out en masse without any order. I'd like some advice to my options for sorting these to make them easier to find and digest. If it were a PC I'd just move the files for each school class to a different folder, but I doubt the Kindle allows subfolders. I suspect I'll have to make use of the Author field by somehow assigning an 'author' to each file, which would be a pain to do for so many files but I am willing to do it. Does anyone have a solution to my problem? Would it work for PDFs as well as text files?