[sirmaru]

I can see what is causing lots of the differences here. Some folks are Collectors with thousands of eBooks organized with Calibre and most books stripped of DRM using Apprentice Alf. One person posted here they owned 6,000 eBooks. Those folks may have hundreds of Collections.

Others, like me, are Readers and only have a small number of eBooks. In my entire life I have only read 93 books per Goodreads and am only reading 2 books as of now. I have 60 books in my "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads which I am sure I will never complete in the entire rest of my life. I have split my eBooks into 8 Collections and one more for Active Content (I own 2). I have set up no Collections for my Apps since I only own 32. I only own 35 eBooks which I purchased from Amazon.

Prior to 1990 I must have read a total of FOUR books in the previous 70 years. I only started really reading books when Microsoft started publishing eBooks for PC's in 1990.

Plus, I have a tolerant view of bugs and problems and usually work around them in software and hardware. Others get floored by the same problems and usually uninstall or return those items.

If you are a Collector owning thousands of eBooks, Kindles are not for you. Investigate some other device or confine your collections to a PC with the proper software.

I have a hunch that the vast majority of eBook purchasers from Amazon are readers like me and do not own thousands of eBooks. Thus, all the Kindle models have suited me just fine. I only exchanged my first Kindle because it kept shorting out.

The purpose of Kindles is to READ eBooks. They are not designed to collect and control thousands of eBooks. There well may be other devices more suitable for that purpose. Microsoft has new tablets which now run Windows 8.1. They may be better suited for the new software apps especially Office 2013 where Excel and OneNote may be far better suited for managing Collections of up to 100,000 books.