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Old 06-22-2011, 11:39 AM   #211
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Originally Posted by boswd View Post
I'm not sure of the Kobo but the nook does use collections, they call it "My Shelves" You create your "Shelf" and catogorize it and name it anyway you want.

I thought you said you own a nook, surely you would have known about the feature. Just because they don't call it "Collections" doesn't mean they don't have it

Again it's called "My Shelves" It's very well laid out on the the nook color and the Nook STR.

For example on mine I've created "OnDeck" "Horror/Thiller" "Freebies" "Humor" "Instructional" etc etc.
Boswd, I do have a Nook, and a Nook Color. In my opinion, any "shelving" system that requires that the shelving be done from the device is fundamentally useless. I've already tagged my books in Calibre, I'm not going to retag them on my Nook AND my phone AND my Nook Color AND my PocketBook 360 AND my Sony AND... etc.

(Except, OH LOOK, only the Nook and Nook Color in the above list require me to do so. The other 3 devices were developed by sane people. )

The Nook shelves are furthermore utterly worthless because they can't be backed up or shared between Nook devices. So, yes, I "know about" the feature, and I think it's poorly implemented to the point of being useless.

I did TRY to shelve all my books on my Nook... I have over 300 books from B&N... you get to type out the shelf name on the slow eInk screen, browse through 14+ pages of books to find the "uncategorized" books, move one to a shelf, and then, oh, look, the nook helpfully moved me to that collection. So now I get to page turn 14+ more times to get to the "uncategorized" again. UGH.

I spent over an hour and still wasn't finished. And then my Nook wiped itself after an update and it was all lost. Never again.

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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan View Post
Can you automate it with Nook software? Is it automatically put into a shelf according to publisher's preference?
Nope. You get to do it all by hand. And there's no way that I know of to back it up or transfer it between devices.

SD card books are even more problematic. It's just broken, period.
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