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Originally Posted by Mark Rehorst
Maybe I just need multiple Kindles!
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You have solved your own problem!
I do think there's a place in the world of digital reading for 'fast switching', if not tiled or tabbed windows. We've had windowed environments for more than 30 years, task switching even longer than that, yet our much more generously endowed ereaders are incapable of this basic function. All it would take is one button or hotkey to switch, and another to toggle an item into and out of 'rotation'. Sigh.
Kindle Cloud Reader actually allows this, but of course that doesn't help the lowly, ground-based Kindle.
If Kindle Fire has a tabbed browser, and Cloud Reader supports that browser, we'll be in business (but I doubt that it will, at least not for awhile).
But on Kindle itself, the best I have been able to come up with is to make a Collection with just the books you want to switch between, sorted in Recent order. Open the bottom book first (least recent). Then to switch to the next book, use Back instead of Home (assuming you haven't jumped a chapter or navigated an href). Back will take you back to the collection you opened the book from, and will be positioned on the next book (the previous one now at the top of the list). Et cetera.
Optimally it only takes 2 clicks to jump to the next book (Back, Select). Of course if you 'jump' within the book, Back will not take you back to the Collection, but rather to the previous location in the same book. And so then you have to use Home and navigate back into the Collection, etc.
I think Amazon messed up a little with the implementation of Collections. I would prefer that Home took you back to the Collection you opened the book from (if you opened from a Collection). A second Home would take you back to the top level. Often one is working with a related collection of items, such as 'current reading', or 'samples', and it's just a little inefficient when you have to navigate back into a Collection that you were just in and wanted to stay in. Lately I have tired of this, and while I still file things in Collections out of habit, I have just been using By Most Recent view instead of Collections view, as the latter requires more clicks to switch among the things I'm actively reading. But of course that doesn't do much to leverage Collections.