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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Part of the selling point of an e-reader is to be able to carry your library with you. Nested folders aren't exactly new technology, they predate DOS. I'd like to be able to have a science fiction folder, with folders underneath for each author, it would make the device much more manageable. If nested folders are so confusing, why have collections at all?
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Well, honestly I'd rather have e-readers do something intelligent with the existing organizational standard for the medium: metadata. Folders are losing currency because both as a metaphor and as a strategy for organization, they're past their usefulness.
Regardless, ereader software is often ill-prepared to deal with an existing collection at all, unless it's on the vendor's servers. Even then, it tends to assume you only want access to what you just bought or just looked at or what people in your social networks are reading, rather than anything like a library. It has a lot to do with the fact that most devices on the market are storefronts first and readers second. The market is closed to anyone interested in actually designing devices for consumers because the major players are pricing with the intent of making it up in content sales, and therefor taking their hardware and software advice from the marketing dept.