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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Sirmaru, I am a READER, I have 400 books in the Amazon Cloud and hubby has bought around 700/800, so that's 1200 books in 28 collections. Every book is in a collection, either his or mine. I don't want all 1200 on my Kindle, either downloaded or grey'd out.
Can you please stop insulting everyone else. Just because you can't see the problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Amen! Plant me firmly in the reads/rereads hundreds of books a year category, like most Kindle owners, and 99% of my books were Amazon purchased and are in Amazon's cloud.
I don't understand why a casual reader owns Kindles in the first place. Why not just use an actual paper book at that point--cheaper, and easily passed on when you're done with it? But no, the majority of Kindle owners are not casual readers. The casual readers I know never bought into the e-ink idea. If they buy ebooks at all, they read them on tablets or phones. The serious readers I know (who read 100 books or more per year) all have e-ink Kindles or other e-ink readers--and have collections that range from 500-5000 books. And yes, many of those books have been read at least once--they aren't hoarding just to collect.
And oh yeah, most of them have full time jobs because how the hell else do you afford to buy all those books? Some of them (gasp) even work in software, as I did for many years, and as my husband still does, and those in the industry will be the first to note that crappy code happens more frequently than one might hope.
Meh. Way off subject.
I've seen a couple of people elsewhere report that with this upgrade they had books show up in collections that they had long since deleted from those collections. (Example a "Reading now" collection that normally holds a few books & now shows the two hundred or so that have been in there at one point or another.) My current PW 2 collections do not show in Cloud Collections as viewed from the iOS app on two separate devices, which makes me even more hesitant to upgrade--I actually store hundreds of books on my PW2, and it took hours with the original kludgy interface to get the way I have them now. If old, outdated data is showing up in this process, that's poor coding, no matter how some people would like to pretend it's all user error.
Is that problem being seen here as well, or something striking only an unfortunate few?