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Atunah · 03-19-2015, 01:03 PM

I never jail breaked any of my kindles, or really any of my devices. I just don't want to mess with stuff I don't know enough about.

Like others I use collections through Amazon. I have some 3000 book in my account, I have to guess now since amazon with its new my account doesn't tell me the number anymore. I back up all my books into calibre where I use tags and colums and virtual libraries. That is about as far as my calibre skills go.

I do not use calibre to put my amazon books in my kindle, I use the usual system for that. Those non amazon books I use send to kindle, not calibre to send so they are in the cloud.

I have collections set to different things. Genres of course but I also have a read, reading, reading next. I have collections with the years I bought the books, one for books that are next in series, etc. I used to have over 50 collections until they pushed that cloud update to my Paperwhite 1. It made my PW almost unusable and I started to delete a bunch of collections in the hopes it would fix that update. It didn't help.

Now I have my Voyage and it handles the collections like a champ and I am starting to build up the collection size again. I am at 28 now. The Voyage finally does the collections the way they were meant to work from the beginning. I can finally do it all on one device. I used to have to fiddle with collections on my fire since the PW was so slow, it took 3 minutes to add books at a time to the collections. 3 minutes each book that is.

I have no clue what a plugboard is on calibre, I never seen that. But I need my collections to be done in the amazon cloud anyway so just having the sorting in calibre alone doesn't help me. I still have it all sorted there too of course. And on goodreads and booklikes and spreadsheets.....

I like organizing my books.

Now after the Voyage perfection, the only thing missing is for Amazon to let us sort and do collections on the computer in the My account section. That would be the ultimate.

03-19-2015, 01:03 PM	#11
Atunah Wizard Posts: 1,817 Karma: 23400001 Join Date: May 2012 Location: USA Device: K1/K3/BasicK Voyage/Oasis1/Oasis3	I never jail breaked any of my kindles, or really any of my devices. I just don't want to mess with stuff I don't know enough about. Like others I use collections through Amazon. I have some 3000 book in my account, I have to guess now since amazon with its new my account doesn't tell me the number anymore. I back up all my books into calibre where I use tags and colums and virtual libraries. That is about as far as my calibre skills go. I do not use calibre to put my amazon books in my kindle, I use the usual system for that. Those non amazon books I use send to kindle, not calibre to send so they are in the cloud. I have collections set to different things. Genres of course but I also have a read, reading, reading next. I have collections with the years I bought the books, one for books that are next in series, etc. I used to have over 50 collections until they pushed that cloud update to my Paperwhite 1. It made my PW almost unusable and I started to delete a bunch of collections in the hopes it would fix that update. It didn't help. Now I have my Voyage and it handles the collections like a champ and I am starting to build up the collection size again. I am at 28 now. The Voyage finally does the collections the way they were meant to work from the beginning. I can finally do it all on one device. I used to have to fiddle with collections on my fire since the PW was so slow, it took 3 minutes to add books at a time to the collections. 3 minutes each book that is. I have no clue what a plugboard is on calibre, I never seen that. But I need my collections to be done in the amazon cloud anyway so just having the sorting in calibre alone doesn't help me. I still have it all sorted there too of course. And on goodreads and booklikes and spreadsheets..... I like organizing my books. Now after the Voyage perfection, the only thing missing is for Amazon to let us sort and do collections on the computer in the My account section. That would be the ultimate.