Quote:
Originally Posted by speedlever
I received my PW2014 today and set it up. I noticed it did not get all the books in the collections I had set up on my K3. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it is related to the fact that I import all my books into Calibre and then email them to my Kindle?
One collection of 43 books on my K3 shows 30 books on my PW2014. I'm sure I can work around the issue, but am puzzled as to what is going on here.
I have much to learn about the current usage of Collections and also how it works with my PW2014.
|
Your K3 has its own, independent, collections. It does not support Cloud Collections. The devices and Kindle apps that support Cloud Collections share a different set of collections.
When you authorize the first device or app that supports Cloud Collections, it imports the collection names you have created previously (in this case the K3), and I think those will be populated with all of the books that were in the collection when the K3 last synced, plus any that were in the collection when you removed them from your K3. But that is a one time import. From that point on the collections are the same in name only, and do not have any synchronization between them. They have to be maintained independently.
As for 'starring', think of it as 'favorite' collections that you want to see all of the time, regardless of which 'view' you are in (All Items, Books, Docs). It is a sort of 'compatibility mode' that makes them appear like they did prior to Cloud Collections. You see items and collections mixed together. But they aren't 'local', they are every bit as much Cloud Collections as non-starred collections, and other CC-supporting devices will see them and be unable to know that they are 'starred' on a particular Paperwhite. And if you go to Collections view, you will see them all listed there.
I played with 'stars' for awhile, but don't like the way it looks, and it seemed to serve no purpose as far as giving quick access to the things currently being read, since you have to open them to access what's in them, an extra step.
I do find them valuable in terms of tagging books I've already read, those I'm currently reading, and those I have yet to read, and one or two for 'reference' type books, but that's it. It makes it super easy to set up on a new Kindle or Kindle app and pick up reading what you were reading on some other Kindle or Kindle app. That's what they are really best for, and that fits with the way I like to organize (which is to say, with as little time and effort involved as possible). But others here find it very limiting and frustrating.