[Joykins]

I'm in the middle of a transition, but I have 2 kindles right now. About 900 books on the K4NT and about 250 on the new PW2.

Collections are simply broad genre categories, such as romance, mystery, science fiction, nonfiction, YA, etc. Everything that has not yet been read aslo goes into an "unread" collection or has not yet been assigned a collection genre label (recently purchased books, recently added books from calibre, library books, etc. as well as books I don't know the classification of before I read them are generally not assigned any collection). Once I finish reading a book I assign it its genre collection if one is not already assigned, and if it is in the "unread" collection I remove it from that collection. One of my goals with the new kindle is not to load it up with stuff I don't plan on reading anytime soon, and to leave fewer books unlabeled before reading them. I just use the collections to help find a book to read, as in "I feel like reading a romance now" or "I feel like reading SF now; what have I got?"

Most of my collection is on calibre and can be side-loaded but I tend to use that mostly for books which have not been purchased at Amazon.