[Ebiumn]

Hi

I have switched from a pair of Pocketbook 360's to a pair of Kindle Voyage's so I suppose I have been an e-booker for some years, I have a large library that I keep on Calibre and was pleased to read that i could convert my files from epub to azw3 and use on the kindle.

So far so good, but then once i have all books converted and synced onto the devices I realise that locating books is very difficult with a flat file, and there is no ability to look at a series of books. Ah then i discover collections and although it wants me to use the cloud, I find that i can use collections locally. Ok so I set up a few collections and start to manually select books, then think well calibre works with kindle voyage now, so i re-connect and on device i see the collection field but it isn't populated.

I have spent ages trying to work this out and been on the phone with amazon\kindle support. I just said i want to organise my collections and keep both devices in sync, after they accept that i have 700 books from the last 10 years and im not going to replace them, and they accept that manually setting up collections on both devices is impracticable, they accept that if i want a refund then i can have it and buy a kobo.

HELP is this the only option, I have been away from book-readers for a couple of years and have re-married and we are off on our first holiday next week(honeymoon) and I have persuaded the new wife to not take lots of books but use a book-reader. Have I fallen at the first hurdle, I thought DRM was a thing of the past and that devices had become more open, is this just DRM in a new disguise.

This stinks of Apple tactics, microsoft have finally made their software x-platform and they are getting good praise, come on amazon

thanks in advance

Darren