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milochristiansen · 08-23-2016, 04:29 PM

I currently have a Kindle 3 (keyboard) and it is high time to upgrade. Looking at various online reviews is less than helpful, as they never mention the (to me) most important aspect: Book management.

I use Calibre on my computer, but I like to leave everything but the books that truly suck on my reader as well. This leads to having several thousand books on the reader.

With the kindle I have my books sorted into collections by series, but this is very inflexible and (with well over 80 pages of books) it is hard to find what I want. I would like to be able to sort and search by series, author, title, last read, etc. Another pet peeve is that the kindle does not display series metadata, so I often have to look series order up in caliber.

What readers have the best book management options? Are there any that display all (or most) of the meta data? Format matters little, all my books are DRM free and can be converted if needed.

08-23-2016, 04:29 PM	#1
milochristiansen Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2016 Device: kindle 3 (keyboard) (looking to replace)	Looking to upgrade from Kindle 3, not sure what to get. I currently have a Kindle 3 (keyboard) and it is high time to upgrade. Looking at various online reviews is less than helpful, as they never mention the (to me) most important aspect: Book management. I use Calibre on my computer, but I like to leave everything but the books that truly suck on my reader as well. This leads to having several thousand books on the reader. With the kindle I have my books sorted into collections by series, but this is very inflexible and (with well over 80 pages of books) it is hard to find what I want. I would like to be able to sort and search by series, author, title, last read, etc. Another pet peeve is that the kindle does not display series metadata, so I often have to look series order up in caliber. What readers have the best book management options? Are there any that display all (or most) of the meta data? Format matters little, all my books are DRM free and can be converted if needed.