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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
All of the e-readers have some sort of filing system. Collections/Folders/Bookshelves. Most of them use a folder system but are pretty limited. It sounds like you are looking for something a bit more complex.
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I don't like the limitations of merely having "collections" especially since, so far as I can see, one would have to re-add everything one at a time in order to create a collection in the ereader, since most of them seem to chuck everything into a database and only let you look at things which are in said database. A database of their own design, with a one-size-fits-all database schema.
I have two distinct sets of ebooks. The "pro" books are fairly simple - they're novels I've bought or downloaded for free; most of them are indeed arranged by author - though I have the collection split by "free" and "bought" books. And the non-fiction tends to be arranged by topic rather than by author. And some books are collected by series rather than by author, where it's a multi-author series.
The second set is more complex: it's my fan-fiction collection. That's arranged primarily by fandom, but I have the whole thing set up as a tree of HTML pages which can be browsed by a browser, and various pages which have specialized indexes - unread stories, stories by length, by character, by author, by ranking... I even set up some javascript-only search pages so that I could do searches from the browser on my Neo (though I gave up on that because the response time was too slow). Each story has its own page (with the story itself as an attachment to that page) where I can write notes about the story... the whole thing is basically a wiki (using IkiWiki, which means it compiles down to static HTML, which means all one needs is a simple browser, not a webserver).
That setup is not something I want to give up.