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Originally Posted by HarryT
It is almost without doubt the case that Sony have not implemented folder support because this is a device aimed at non computer-experts and many less-knowledgeable computer users get very confused by folders. Look at the typical home computer and you'll find that people tend (on a Windows machine) to put everything in the "My Documents" folder. Implementing folder support would probably have resulted in large numbers of support calls from people complaining that their books have "disappeared".
Companies like Sony spend lots of money doing market research; the way the Reader is the way it is (reading but not displaying folders) is very likely because that's what they found that people wanted.
The Reader is not alone in this; the CyBook Gen3, Kindle, Pocket PC devices - they all work in this way, showing the contents of folders in a "flat list". There has to be a good reason for that, given the massive amounts of money these companies spend on product testing and market research.
We (on MR) don't represent the typical user of these devices; they are aimed at the NON-expert.
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I fully believe HarryT's explanation. My beef with Sony is that they haven't produced an expert-mode setting for those of us who
can cope with folders or other ways of organizing large numbers of items.
If not folders, then how 'bout the obvious multi-level expansion of the 10-way chop they included for the 505? First you push button one for the "A-B" authors, then button five for "Alston-Azurite," then... Three button pushes should get you to any of 1000 books!!
And it should work this way for viewing by title, by author, by collection (at least).
I don't insist that this be the default mode of operation. All I want is a way deal with large numbers of books for the expert (or crazy?) users who really want to do that.
Xenophon