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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. |
Have you actually ever held a NookTouch in you hand and use the shelves-function in the library?
I have all my books on an SD card; there was/is no problem adding or removing them to or from shelves.
And, to add books to shelves is not nearly as annoyingly difficult as you make it out to be. It's actually rather simple and fast.