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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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.
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. |
Ok maybe you need to switch to decafe?
You said they don't have collections, I pointed out they use the name MyShelves" instead of collections.
I don't know what seems to be the issue. Now granted I would like a drag and drop or check box on my computer and then synch it up that way. But that's not the reality.
It doesn off a touch check mark from the device, but I fail to see the go all bizzarko when the difference between tapping a check box or hovering your mouse over a checkbox is all that much of a big deal.
Bottom line you said they don't have collections I mearly stated they do.
Now if Sony's system is the second coming of Christ for you then hey have at it.
To the rest of us, using Calibre to organize my entire library and use the nook color's "mYshelves " current and partial library works just fine for me.
But I don't see you going over to the kindle and pointing the lack of even having a collections or Shelves. but yeah that's right you are only focused on bashing the nook, my bad my bad.