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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not sure that I agree with you. Implementing a simple folder browser isn't difficult. Simply display the contents of a folder and have two different icons to represent files and folder. If you "select" a book, open it; if you select a folder, move down a level and display its contents. A flat list is considerably more work, because you have to keep track of the actual location of everything you're displaying, allow for duplicate names in different folders, and so on.
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Yes, but it still is more work than implementing reading of all files in the sub directories and displaying them in a flat list. Keeping track of names is trivial. The user interface part of the folder UI is much harder to get right.