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Calibre is great. It makes it easy to pick out your unread books, find a specific book in a specific series, look through all the books in a specific genre and every other function you might want a library program to do. Amazon's archive however is all but useless once you get past a few hundred books. It can't do any of that. I can't from my kindle browse my Calibre library to find the specific book I want, looking in the archive to find what I want is all but impossible. With the collections I've set up, as second class as that system is, I've got 900 books condensed down to 9 home pages with all my series numbered and in the correct order. It makes it at least reasonably easy to pick out the specific book I want anywhere I happen to be.
I'll depend on the archive when I can make collections in it, edit the metadata of the books in it, and am able to search the archive by metadata tags I attach to my books. All things that should have been programmmed into the kindle software from the start.
I'm really hoping for a generic reader designed for large libraries that can read any non-DRM'd ebook. They don't need their own ebook store or their own servers. Just have a lot of memory and good library management software that interfaces seemlessly with Calibre. I'd be quite content if they cut costs by leaving our 3G, Wi-Fi, lighted and touch screens if that was the only way they could make it affordable.
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