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Originally Posted by Ortep
Which one you use? My Creative Zen isn't even capable of that
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I have used iRiver iHP120 and iAudio D2 and both can browse using directories.
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Tag searching is extremely flexible
Depending on what I want I can choose the genre: Rock or Audio Book and then the Author/Artist and Book/song. But I also can choose to start with the Autor, or with the name of a song
With directory trees that is completely impossible. If you store something under Romance, then Author and then Book Title, you will have a problem if the same writer also wrote Horror and Non Fiction. Try finding all the books of a specific writer. Or even worse: If you have books from the same author in different translations. They'll end up all over the place.
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I always remember the author so I would optimize the directory structure after how I remember and access books. If I want to read book number four in Glen Cook's Garret series I would just go to the Garret-series sub directory for Glen Cook and the books would be in order in that director. I really do not se how I would find that book fast using tags. Especially since I do not want to tag all books by myself.
Restricting your search to a tree structure will give faster access to the price of some limitations. But if the tree structure fits how you think about books then this is optimal.
And the access method should work on all platforms (like my N810) and since I need to store the books somewere I have to do the work of placing in the correct directory but I do not want to do more work for a book that I might read sometimes in the future.