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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Underneath the Collections display on my iPad and iPhone the Cloud/Device options are both greyed out. Indicates to me it's a static display regardless of what's on the device or not. On my iPhone the books in the collection not downloaded are shown as there but in white, they are all personal docs btw.
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Yes, the options are greyed out for displaying the list of Collections, because Cloud Collections (as implemented) are omnipresent. They live in the cloud but display on the device.
'Not downloaded' does not have anything directly to do with white thumbnails. If a personal document has a cover image embedded 'properly', a thumbnail image will be generated, but only if you download it to the app. Then you can Archive the document and the thumbnail will be cached and will show for that item even though it is no longer on the device. Personal documents without properly embedded cover images (converted from word documents or whatever) will appear white whether they are on the device or not.
Content from Amazon will always have thumbnail images, even if it was never downloaded to the app. They download new thumbnails whenever new content is added to the library and sync happens.
It's the checkmark icon that is superimposed on the cover thumbnail that indicates it is on the device.
The iOS app implementation of CC suffers from the same limitation as the Fire/PW implementation: you cannot narrow focus to just the on-device items. It is good you can see the entire collection, but we still need to be able to filter to just on-device, for backward compatibility with how they appeared previously. Hopefully Amazon will appreciate the feedback they get and restore the feature they removed in their excitement to add a new one.