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cjd55 · 01-03-2017, 08:53 AM

I suspect this may have been asked before but I cant find it so apologies in advance. I had a basic Kindle for many years. I created lots of collections on it. When I started the kindle up I got a list of collections followed by any books that had not been assigned to a collection (or vice versa depending on how I had left the sort criteria).

Sadly the old kindle died so I recently bought a new Paperwhite 3 that has (I believe) the latest firmware on it. I have since been busily transferring books from my Calibre Library but also am being shown virtually every book I have bought from Amazon. Now I am starting to organise stuff into collections again and find that I can either see a list of my collections BUT no books at all OR a list of my collections followed by a list of ALL my books regardless of whether they are also in a collection! Sorting by ALL or Downloaded seems to make a small reduction to the number of books shown but it is a mix of downloaded and not downloaded rather than anything consistent!

Am I doing something really silly or is this just the latest example of Amazon's inability (unwillingness?!) to have a structure that lets you manage your library in the way you want and from PC or device?

Sorry for having a bit of rant but I am a 'neat freak' and this lack of order is really frustrating.

01-03-2017, 08:53 AM	#1
cjd55 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation)	Paperwhite 3 I suspect this may have been asked before but I cant find it so apologies in advance. I had a basic Kindle for many years. I created lots of collections on it. When I started the kindle up I got a list of collections followed by any books that had not been assigned to a collection (or vice versa depending on how I had left the sort criteria). Sadly the old kindle died so I recently bought a new Paperwhite 3 that has (I believe) the latest firmware on it. I have since been busily transferring books from my Calibre Library but also am being shown virtually every book I have bought from Amazon. Now I am starting to organise stuff into collections again and find that I can either see a list of my collections BUT no books at all OR a list of my collections followed by a list of ALL my books regardless of whether they are also in a collection! Sorting by ALL or Downloaded seems to make a small reduction to the number of books shown but it is a mix of downloaded and not downloaded rather than anything consistent! Am I doing something really silly or is this just the latest example of Amazon's inability (unwillingness?!) to have a structure that lets you manage your library in the way you want and from PC or device? Sorry for having a bit of rant but I am a 'neat freak' and this lack of order is really frustrating.