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Old 11-20-2013, 03:19 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by sirmaru View Post
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 ed my first Kindle because it kept shorting out.
Can you ever admit when Amazon doesn't implement something as well as they could have? Seems like it's always the users fault in your view because they are not like you. It's fine that you've read 93 books in your life, but many read more than that in a year and Amazon's software needs to work for both kinds of readers not just some.
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