[HarryT]

I have 1800 or so books on my Voyage and don't use collections at all. I'm really only interested in managing series, and what I use for that is a Calibre plugboard that prefixes a book's title with the series name and number, so I end up with, for example:

Miss Marple 01 - The Body in the Library

I then sort my home screen by author, and the result is that I have an alphabetical list of authors, and my books sorted in series order within each author. Because my books are sorted by author I can jump directly to any author from the home screen by typing in the initial letter(s) of the author's name.