Calibre (to manage my library on my Mac), plus calibre2opds (to build both an html catalog of my books, and also an OPDS catalog that gets copied onto my nook), plus Trook (a third-party app that reads OPDS catalogs on the nook).
Because of this combination, I have easy access over 1200 eBooks on my nook. I can drill down by Title, by Author, by Series, by Date Added (or by tag, if that's what I want). It's hierarchical within each of these, so choosing author gets me to a page with selections for Authors beginning with A, with B, with C... Likewise for series, title, etc.
Think of it as convenient card-catalog access to my entire library, on my nook. I haven't tried the Kindle's collections, so I can't compare directly. I can say, however, that it beats the pants off the collections feature on the Sony Readers. And I see no reason it wouldn't work equally well for much larger collections than mine.
Xenophon
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