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Originally Posted by theonna
For file manager it is not a limitation. The only reason that someone might need a book in more than one collection is that collections are flat. If you have hierarchical structure, you do not need to have same book in many collections, because it would already be filed under genre, author and series. So this is a limitation of a flat shelving system and it gets transferred to a collection system derived from folder structure.
Generally you'd specify a directory from which you'd like to build shelves, and it builds them from all books from that directory and all subfolders.
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Even with filing by author, you would need multiple copies for quite a few books. I have by a quick count, about 400 books on my Aura that either have more than one author, are edited by more than one person or are anthologies where I like to be able to search by all the authors. Do I file Elvenblood under Norton, Andre or Lackey, Mercedes? And then I have those books that are iffy as to whether they are fantasy or science fiction or mystery. Lord Darcy for an example. Do I file Good Omens, the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch under Pratchett, Terry or Gaiman, Neil? Under humour or fantasy genre? " I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM. "
One example for my wife, she has a series with 5 books. Each are written by two or three authors with a total of 8 authors involved with the 5 books. Search with the series pops up all 5. A file manager? Going to fun trying to devise a file structure that makes it easy to locate all 5 books without having multiple copies.
Just much easier to be able to search by author, title, series, etc.
Regards,
David