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Originally Posted by jgsmith
Colour me confused. I own a PW2, have never bought content from Amazon (not that there's anything wrong with that), use Calibre to manage my library and transfer books to the Kindle, and have had zero problems. I do not, however, use collections. For me, the Kindle is a reader, not a library. Calibre is the library. I keep all my books nicely organized in Calibre, and only keep the books I have not read, on the Kindle. As soon as I finish a book, I delete it from the Kindle, and it stays in Calibre. When it's time to start a new book, I either go out and get it if I don't already have it, or find it by browsing my Calibre library, then just open it up on the Kindle. I sort my books by author on the Kindle and use a Calibre plugboard to include the series name and number in the book title. Makes finding any book pretty quick and easy. Maybe someone can help me understand what I'm missing by not using collections...
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You would use collections in the same way you would organize things in a file browser by folder. It makes it easier to find.
I have a collection called Forgotten Realms, that contains 40 books set in the same world in different series' and by different authors. I have a TBR collection with 84 books in it, which is always the first thing sorted on my home screen -- it makes it much faster to find things. I have a Harry Potter collection, A Dresden Files collection, a Percy Jackson collection, a Terry Pratchett collection, -- with these I can quickly access some of my favorite books.
It's like using tags in calibre to find specific groups of books.
You may not feel the need for that, in which case all the power to you. Other people do use it, and for them the PW2 and it's collections mess-up will not be a pleasant experience. Thank god for my Kindle Touch which doesn't have this unfeaure.