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Originally Posted by DNSB
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 'belga' 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 is pretty minimal.
If I'm lookinh got an author, a search on 'webe' 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 search through.
Regards,
David
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I use search constantly on my computer, even when it is not the most effiecient method.
My problem with books is that I probably have residual pbook tendencies. It is how I percieve them.
On my other readers, I open the collections and open a collection and everything is sorted in the order I have chosen. If I open an author collection the books are sorted by series if there is one with the non-series books first, book one in each series next, followed by book two in each series. Not how others do it, but I like this.
If I have my collections based on series, which I have on one of my Kobos well the books are all in order after I change the default sort.
I will try using the search as you use it a few more times (I will aim for 10) and see if it approximates what I prefer. Maybe you can sort the search results by author or series for example?
Generally I read for an hour or so before going to sleep (I am kind of old so I have an afterwork nap and then an actual bedtime at night) so I am not at my brightest when looking for books
but will give it a shot.
Helen