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Originally Posted by theonna
The method that you have outlined has not been implemented yet.
File manager is not something that developers team need to develop, the reason Amazon and others don't want file manager has nothing to do with ease or difficulty of its development, because it is already there, it has to do with their desire to protect their content. Operating systems that run reading devices all have file management system, it is a choice of management to close this system from user and offer instead artificial extra layer for "convenience". I am sure designing shelf and database construct is far more laborious than using existing file manager. It is a matter of choice, not resources.
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I think you're confusing a File System with a File Manager.
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File System is a set of routines in the operating system that perform file management tasks (open a file, close a file, read from a file, write to a file, delete a file, etc).
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File Manager is an interface between the File System and the user. In text based operating systems (MS-DOS, Unix, etc) it's a command line interface where you type in commands, i.e. COPY, DEL, DIR, etc. In a GUI it's all graphical; you use the mouse and keyboard and can drag and drop representations of the file system around (icons, etc) and the File Manager interprets your requests and passes these on to the File System in a manner that the File System understands.
So you're incorrect when you say that the Kobo devices already have a File Manager. They've got a File System, but not a File Manager. So the Kobo devs would indeed have to put time into developing a File Manager, there isn't one hidden away inside the firmware that they can just turn on for you.
Given that there is just as much, if not more, work involved in creating a File Manager as there is in improving Shelves (i.e. allowing nested shelves), or even in implementing TechniSol's interesting idea, my vote is that the Kobo devs move forward along the path that they've already started on rather than go backwards to implement a File Manager.