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Lucky for me I don't use collections on my PW. I use them on my Sonys and love them because they interface with Calibre so well. I would use them on the Kindle, if they were easy to use and manage with Calibre. I don't have any interest in having my collections/side loaded documents in the cloud. I'm perfectly happy sideloading most of my books through Calibre and letting Calibre be my book manager.
IMO, Amazon has made the collections difficult to use on their readers--especially on the new PW2 with update--unless you use them exactly like they want you to use them--no side loading, no sharing of accounts/multiple Kindles with different collections. I also think it's silly that all the books not currently on your Kindle, but in a "cloud collection" show up in the collection under device view. I wouldn't like that at all. And from everything I've read--there is no way to manage a cloud collection except through a device? If it were truly a "cloud collection", I would think there would be some sort of interface to access my "cloud" directly to add/delete/rename collections and choose which Kindle(s) I want which collections to show on.
It'll be interesting to see what the next firmware brings. I'd love to be able to use collections on my KPW2 to place my books in series. But for now, I'm using Calibre plugboards to put the series information in the book title and that works okay.
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