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Originally Posted by shalym
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?
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Navigational-efficiency and flexibility-of-categorisation are always likely to be in tension, so it's an issue that it is perfectly reasonable to have differing preferences and thus views.
The vast majority of my books are in two genres, science fiction and fantasy, so I haven't bothered to split by genre as yet. If I did so, then I'd probably place authors according to which genre the majority of their work is in (while many cross over between the two, few are even roughly equally balanced between them). If the author was one of the rare ones that was equally balanced, I suspect I'd split their books into a directory in each genre.
I think it is a very good thing that we have diversity of manufacturers, not just in brand, but also in outlook --
vive la différence! And I suppose I should be grateful to the Kindle as well, even if I never expect to buy one -- it is unlikely that eInk would have advanced as far as it has without Amazon and the Kindle picking up the tab. This way I get to have my cake and eat it too -- both improving technology at an affordable price (if not quite as low as Amazon offers), and niche eReaders that suit my idiosyncratic tastes.
