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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't think it's that it's complicated; more a case that it's just not a particularly good way to deal with a large library. Most people are interested in being able to browse on more than simply "author", hence a database which allows you to sort your library by author, title, series, genre, tag, etc, gives you far more flexibility.
I.e. Browse useful information rather than being constrained by the storage of books in the underlying file system.
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But you surely dont want a large library in a single long list? That is the advantage of those which use a folder analog to deal with it. Author is just one option. I dont want to have to search, see, I just want to browse and that is usually going to be (for me, anyway) either by author or genre, but mostly by author because I have favourites. I never know what I might want to read next, but in scrolling through an Author list, I can make a quick decision about who... and then what.
I guess its all about personal preferences, and I would like to have the option to see my books sorted into different pages by Author. Any other way of managing books is unwieldy, for me. I keep forgetting about Shubook with the excitement of new apps (i'm now pretty much Hyphen dependent) but I will use it again because it actually is closest in functionality to Stanza.