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Originally Posted by nigeldb
For istance, I wish the ILiad could get more titles on the screen, had the name and Author and that and you could sort by Author.
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One of the problems with MobiPocket's own software is that it does not do subdirectories. So in order to allow the Windows MobiPocket Reader to manage MOBI ebooks on the iLiad, iRex had to make the Books/Mobipocket directory act differently than all other directories on the iLiad. In that directory only, when a MOBI file is opened it stays in the Books/Mobipocket directory. If an ebook is anywhere else on the machine, the first time it is opened it will be moved into its own subdirectory and from them on contentlister will key on manifest.xml to control what it displays on the screen.
So, if you want Windows Mobipocket Reader to manage your ebooks you are stuck (unless you modify the ebooks metadata, e.g. with mobi2mobi). However, if you are willing to move them yourself from the desktop to the iLiad (via USB) then you can manually create subdirectory trees to make navigation easier. For example you could have one subdirectory per author (or per multi-book author, with a misc subdirectory for the rest). It is also then possible to edit the manifest.xml file of previously opened ebooks to change what the contentlister displays.