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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
1. Call me a stick in the mud, but I am accustomed to a shelf browser that works reliably in my other readers,
But.. if Kobo is unable to get theis working than by all means ditch it and I will get accustomed to using the search as you suggest.
2-6 nothing for me there in fact it makes me wince for the most part. But if enough others want it, by all means.
Helen
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I was used to a file browser before but with as many books/authors/series/genres that I currently have on my ereader, it's just easier to type 'belg' in the search bar to bring up the Belgariad series rather than to browse down through the directory structure to find a book. It's also easier to search for multiple author items. A search for 'assit' brings up all the Assiti Shards books instead of having to dig through all the authors who have books in the series. Or if I am just looking for the base books, '163' works. The effort of adding the series information using Calibre was pretty minimal.
If I'm looking for an author, a search on 'web' brings up all the books that David Weber authored or co-authored regardless of where they are. Otherwise, I'd be going "Who did he co-author that book with" so I could dig to the right folder. Another problem is that I have several series where each book has a different author -- search has no issue with finding the book name, author name or series. How do I file those in a directory structure to make them easy to find?
Implementing a file browser should be fairly trivial since the Kobo ereaders are Linux based but, to me, it's become a feature whose day has passed.
Using search also saves me the pains that others are complaining about with shelves. Why have a shelf for a group of books when you can just do a quick search for them? Instant shelves on the fly at full speed.
Even on my computer, I'm often using search to find files rather than browsing to locate them -- using either Windows or Mac OS X, search becomes a better choice when you have that many files to wade through.
The reason for some of the odd abbreviations above is that I stop typing when the on-the-fly search gets down to 1 to 4 returned results.
Regards,
David