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Originally Posted by LadyKate
I have never understood the way ebook readers and programs display books / bookshelves. My personal way of displaying books on my tablets is on an sd card in a library directory by author / series etc.
I tend to go to my calibre to mark books as read or to-read. I save the books I want to read soon to an "sd card library" folder by author name including the series in the file name. This allows me to go to an author's folder and choose a book by browsing the titles (file names).
The hodge podge of how books "added" to a program or device is displayed confused me too much lol. I have been using computers since the 80s and ereader programs since 99 so I admit to finding my "resistance" to the bookshelves to be strange BUT I enjoy reading by author and series. In the case of a multi author series I will store the books in a separate folder for multi author collections listed by series name/position title.
How can anyone find what they want to read when it is a bunch of covers displayed in what appears to be a random manner?
I have never seen a good example of how to organize your ebook bookshelves the way YOU want to.
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Hmmm...in my Kindle collections, I have author collections, genre collections, series collections, not to mention the ones I have indicating when the book was read. Most of these collections only exist in the cloud, and on my Kindle I keep the "finished" collection for the current year, and the collection for samples. Any one book can be in multiple collections, but I only have one actual copy of it. For instance, all of the Harry Potter books exist in multiple collections. They exist in the Fantasy collection, the Kids collection, the Harry Potter collection, and each book also exists in the collection for the year it was read (and since I re-read the whole series multiple times, each book exists in multiple years)
I can't imagine limiting myself to JUST sorting by author, or JUST sorting by genre. Sometimes I'm in the mood to read every book by a given author, and sometimes I'm in the mood to read a certain genre, and don't care who the author is. I also re-read a LOT, so just having a single "read" or "unread" folder wouldn't work for me.
For my Kobo, which doesn't allow me to keep my books in the cloud (easily), I do keep many more books on it, and I use their shelf system to organize it in much the same way that my books are organized in my Kindle Cloud, the only difference is that they are all stored on the device.
I understand that your system works for you, I just wanted to explain how my system works for ME.
Shari