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Originally Posted by pietro
I agree I would not be so categorical. Calibre is very useful in interconverting book formats on my mac. But, unless you are a fan of Steve Job and his "sync" concept, by which you cannot transfer music and files to ipods and phones without going through iTunes and its shop and do a "sync" (this is the catch word), I strongly prefer a more user friendly drag-and-drop mechanismto transfer files to the reader.
I only wish there was a way I could put books in different folders in the reader and those where recognized/shown up by the interface as folders (and if that was really not fashionable enough), as collections. Maybe there is and if someone more skilled than me would point me out how...
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Yes, the Collection feature doesn't seem user friendly. In the reader itself you must first create a new collection. Then for each book you want to add to a collection one by one. There should be a check box system to add multiple books to a collection all at once. Doing it one at a time takes ages. When you have created a collection it doesn't group the books together at all for normal browsing.
It's no better in the Sony Reader software itself. I couldn't work out how to create a colllection and, to get the thread back on track, delete a book on there either.
In the end I removed all the books I wanted from the Library and then I synced which successfully removed them from the reader as well. Hope this helps.
Somebody mentioned apple and iTunes before. In iTunes, Sync is not the only way to update your iPod. You can do it manually - Essential if your library is bigger then the capacity of your iPod.