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Originally Posted by Torrain
This this this so much this. I'd feel dumb for not checking for this before I bought one, but... it's 2011! I really did not expect that a device meant to store hundreds of individually complete entertainment files would *not* have any kind of sorting scheme beyond favourite/not-favourite and alphabetical or file-last-accessed-(not-the-same-as-book-being-read), you know?
Given that at most you can show six books on a screen at once, I think it'd work fine if I only had fifteen books. I've got a hundred and five, on a device that bills itself as being able to carry a thousand, and I was expecting to have four to six hundred, loosely, by the end of the year.
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Yes. I have four or five hundred ebooks, and it's an issue. My solution is to browse on my PC and copy over only the book(s) I want to read next. Unsatisfactory.
This is a wider problem with all of the ereaders I've tried. Notwithstanding the various requests for different fonts, hyphenations, landscape modes, and so on, the fact is that, at least for me, the experience of reading a book on the kobo is as good as reading a paper book.
But reading is only half of the bibliophile's pleasure. The other half, which precedes it, is selecting what book to read next.
I have a wall of physical books. I enjoy the process of scanning the shelves. Will it be an old friend I can practically recite word for word? A new adventure, delving into pages unknown? A brief reminiscent trip back to childhood? A once read but now almost forgotten mystery? Or is it time to head to head to the store to find a new member of the family?
Ebooks don't come close to replicating this experience. I can't scan my collection at a glance: I just see a tiny, slowly, oh so slowly, moving peephole through which I can only glimpse a tiny fraction of the riches that I know are there.
I would love to see ebooks replicate the
browsing for a book experience as well as they already replicate the
reading of a book. Any device manufacturer who can do this can name their own price.
As a mundane first step, until some genius comes up with an answer to this, Kobo could add a simple one book per line title and author index page format, with 20 or so entries to a page, so my 400 ebooks only take 20 page turns to browse instead of 66.