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guymcd · 09-29-2014, 04:09 PM

Hi All,

I am looking for some advice on moving forward. For Christmas I would like to present my 72 y/o really grumpy (but I lover her to death) spinster aunt with some form of ereader containing 4000+ books. I can safely say she will not be tolerant of all the idiosyncrasies the general population accepts as part of daily interactions with our beloved ebooks.

I have looked at several ereaders and several apps. What I can't come up with is a solution where she won't have to scroll through hundreds of icons to find a book to read. She will not have the benefit of Calibre and even if I print her a catalog it doesn't solve the interaction issue. In looking at the new Kindle app it has the concept of catalogs which may work as each catalog contains direct links to books on the device. So you can select a book to read from the catalog as opposed to finding a book in a list and then attempting to swipe to it in the interface. This is not a perfect solution but, with some thought, catalogs could be put together that would model a binary search such that the number of icons to view to find a book of interest is significantly reduced. That said, it won't happen manually and I spent about 3 hours last night trying to find where this magic file is stored without success. If I can't find it I can't reverse engineer it for programmatic creation.

What I hoping is that someone has already encountered a similar situation and can provide some ideas about how to move forward. Keep in mind, she does not have a computer nor does shoe have access to the cloud.

Thanks!

09-29-2014, 04:09 PM	#1
guymcd Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: Tablet	Managing a library for the intolerant Hi All, I am looking for some advice on moving forward. For Christmas I would like to present my 72 y/o really grumpy (but I lover her to death) spinster aunt with some form of ereader containing 4000+ books. I can safely say she will not be tolerant of all the idiosyncrasies the general population accepts as part of daily interactions with our beloved ebooks. I have looked at several ereaders and several apps. What I can't come up with is a solution where she won't have to scroll through hundreds of icons to find a book to read. She will not have the benefit of Calibre and even if I print her a catalog it doesn't solve the interaction issue. In looking at the new Kindle app it has the concept of catalogs which may work as each catalog contains direct links to books on the device. So you can select a book to read from the catalog as opposed to finding a book in a list and then attempting to swipe to it in the interface. This is not a perfect solution but, with some thought, catalogs could be put together that would model a binary search such that the number of icons to view to find a book of interest is significantly reduced. That said, it won't happen manually and I spent about 3 hours last night trying to find where this magic file is stored without success. If I can't find it I can't reverse engineer it for programmatic creation. What I hoping is that someone has already encountered a similar situation and can provide some ideas about how to move forward. Keep in mind, she does not have a computer nor does shoe have access to the cloud. Thanks!