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Originally Posted by sirmaru
As I mentioned in another post, I am a GADGET Collector, not an eBook Collector. I have FOUR Kindles now and would buy any gadget Amazon introduces with their brand name at any price up to $ 1,000.
I doubt anyone else but me in this Forum would buy FOUR Kindles in one year to read just 6 eBooks in that time frame.
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Actually, I'm very close you in my reading gadgets vs. books read habits. I have bought four Kindles within a year (not counting replacements and Kindles bought for relatives) and read I guess less than 10 books on them. I love gadgets, I also love reading but prioritize less time for it than some people.
Then again, I have no issues discerning the different types of needs people have. And I can clearly see why Amazon dropped the ball on Cloud Collections as they function now, even though it doesn't affect me at all. These people are not asking for the moon from the sky, they are asking for a logically functioning, basic categorization functionality from their e-reader - that used to be there but has now been changed into something that will be a problem for quite a few people. This is not a hardcore feature they are asking, but very basic stuff.
And the heavy reader has been a significant target market for Amazon, if not in numbers then at least in philosophy - and maybe in numbers too. Jeff Bezos has made big hay about the importance of reading and readers. Heavy readers have lots of books and many use collections. Now those collections have been broken in several ways for many of these people, it is quite understandable to ask for a change - and actually quite reasonable and likely that Amazon will respond with some fix and/or option down the road, although judging from past it might not fix all gripes, but at least some.