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Old 10-19-2011, 05:48 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by allisondbl View Post
the problem is that I already HAVE all my THOUSANDS of books sorted neatly into perfect folders ON MY PC - one level of folders, each book in one folder. All I want to do is drop and drag THE FOLDERS with their books into Kindle.
You can drop your nest of folders into the documents folder on the Kindle while it is connected as a USB drive to your PC and the ebooks will show up (indexing them will take a while). This won't get you collections on your Kindle, but the Calibre's Kindle Collections GUI Plugin can manage Kindle collections, even if the ebooks are not in your Calibre library.

A single folder with 1,000 sub-folders isn't the optimal file structure for a Kindle. A better approach would be 26 folders, A to Z, each with your current folders starting with that letter. This gets you on average 40 folders per A-Z folder. I actually use genre (rather than A-Z) as my first level of folders, which is probably less effective because some genres have lots of ebooks.
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