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Originally Posted by Hrafn
Directory-based navigation is multi-level hierarchical, allowing for efficient tree-based navigational structures, like author/series (or even genre/author/series, if your collection got sufficiently large). When a number of manufacturers fully implement this feature, I see no reason to buy an eReader that would require me to hack it in order to imperfectly emulate this feature.
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For me, a strictly directory based navigation scheme is too limiting. I like to have my books sorted by author, genre, series, and year read. With collections, this is easy to do--I have one collection for each author, one for each genre, one for each series, and one for each year, and a book can be in multiple collections at the same time without having to have multiple copies of the file on my reader.
So with your example of "genre/author/series" as a folder structure, what would you do if you wanted to read a specific author who writes in different genres? Would you need to have a copy of the book in both the "genre/author" tree and the main "author" folder? Or would you just not have an author folder above the genre folders?
PS: Note that I said "For me" above. Please don't think that I am telling you that you MUST do it this way, or that mine is the best way for everyone. I am simply telling you why I like collections better.
Shari