With all the recent dialogue regarding PW2s and the various problems with the current update, there has been many comments regarding how users use the collections feature. This has gotten me to thinking, how do you all use the collections feature, how many books do you keep on your device, do you use Calibre, just Amazon or something else? Inquiring minds want to know...
Personally my setup includes:
1. I keep @250 books on my device
2. I use Calibre to cleanup the metadata to fit my specific naming/genre conventions.
3. I use Calibre's plugboard feature to change the title to include the genre, series, author and title of the book to make it easier to organize in the Collections on the device.
4. I use genre, favorite series, to be read lists, purchased from categories to create collections. I currently have a total of 104 collections in my setup. Unfortunately all these show up now on the device even though most of them do not have books on the device in the collections.
@Simaru: A little side note for you in case you are tempted to state this is not how Amazon designed the feature to be used, and not I am not the typical Amazon user. It does not matter what Amazon's intention was when they designed it, as with everything else man-made, if one can think it, one can improve it. It is this feedback that Amazon encourages because it helps them to either improve it, change it or ignore it. But as users, we are free to discuss whatever pops into our heads. This is Amazon's blurb from the Paperwhite site:
"Carry Your Entire Library
Kindle Paperwhite holds up to 1,100 books, so you'll never have to leave your favorite titles behind. With Kindle Paperwhite, you can keep your entire library at hand wherever you go.
Organize Your Books
NEW—As your collection grows, use Cloud Collections to arrange titles in custom categories and see your collections on your other Kindle devices and reading apps."
Notice how it says "Custom categories", I assume I do not need to define custom for you.
With that said, I would love to know the setup that you "advanced" users use for your device, what method of madness works for you??
And please no disrespect to anyone but if you are not using the Collections feature or you use less than 5 collections or books, please let those of us who do discuss our experiences with the knowledge we have gained from such use.
