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Originally Posted by gabby98
Gotcha...maybe that's how I can get my daughter to read more...right now she only reads on Watt Pad, which I am semi grateful for, but she needs to expand her horizons at least a little.
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Fanfiction can be great for getting someone who's not a big reader into reading. Just, I don't know your daughter's age, but be aware that while some archives are good at marking which stories are adult, others really aren't and she may get more than you bargained for. Fanfiction.net is typically not very explicit but they've only just started letting authors mark pairings and, well, writing quality varies wildly.
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Originally Posted by gabby98
I agree...with my Nook and the first e-reader I bought my mother (Ematic i think) I could at least fake it with the folder structure I used to load the file and then just use the directory view to get to where I wanted to be, but having the option in collections seems like an upsell to me.I suppose one day they will figure that out. I think that was why i found it so hard to find a reader app for my androids that I liked, they were all missing the collections/directory option i was looking for. Moon+ pro was as close as I could get on Android and then I think there's Marvin for iOS
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Sadly I think that manufacturers just don't want to expend the effort, or money, to invest in a feature like that. When ereaders first came out the big thing was
"Oh, look at all the space you have on our ereader. You can store your entire library." Of course those readers only came with the option of sorting by title or by author. How many people walk into a book store or the library and say,
"Show me all the books that start with B or all the authors that start with G." No one does that. Then they introduced basic collections/bookshelves to make people happy. And it worked, sort of. But by this time a lot of people had started hacking their ereaders to get the features they wanted. So now I think manufacturers figure why put in the effort(money) when they know a certain percentage of customers will hack their readers. And the ones who won't will only keep a few books at a time on their reader to compensate for the lack of good organization. Or, they'll move to tablets where they can download apps that will mostly do what they want. Again, it's a frustration.