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Originally Posted by Lordblacknail
Putting new books that you have added to your Kindle, from within the Kindle, is a pain. What we need is a program that works on the computer and lets us manage the books on the Kindle.
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I find those sentences contradictory, so I'll try addressing them discretely, second one first ...
Most folks here use Calibre (or the Sony software) to manage their books by tagging them (say "Pratchett"). After transfer the tags become "collections." When you activate a Sony from sleep mode, on the main screen you see a large thumbnail and info on the most recent book opened, with smaller ones for the last three loaded. You can then tap either "see all" to go to your entire device inventory, books currently reading first (opened), followed by unread books loaded, newest loads first. Or, you can tap "Collections" from the main screen, and bring up a list of all of them, tap on the one you want, and you'll go to the thumbnails of all of those books only.
From "within" the Sony (untethered), you can add new collections and delete existing ones, as well as add and delete a book to/from an existing collection. Say you added
Men at Arms, but had forgotten to tag it on the computer. You can add it to "Pratchett" when you realize your omission later. Or, say, if I start a "Travel" book, feel it's really more a memoir, and decide I want to come back to it later, I'll add it to "Memoir" (or create a Memoir collection) and delete it from Travel - again, without using the computer at all.
We can have a the same book in more than one collection, but there are no sub-folders. Also, collections created on the device don't "take" when uploaded back to the PC - that's a one-way deal.
I hope that was helpful!