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ac12a · 10-22-2017, 02:05 AM

I browse a collection when I am looking for a book in a particular subject, such as photography (which is how I make my collections).

I try to limit the number of books in a collection to less than 150.
More than that and browsing a collection becomes difficult.
So I break larger collections down into sub-collections.

This was originally driven by the Kindle2 where I could only see 10 books on a screen. So browsing through a 200 book collection meant paging through 20 screens. I determined that 10 screens was a practical maximum for a collection on the K2.

The sub-collections make finding books easier in a large collection of several hundred books.
Example
- food (as the level 1 collection)
- food.breads (as the level 2 collection, or sub-collection)

For others like fiction
- Fiction (level 1)
- Fiction.historical (level2 by type of fiction)
- Fiction.fantasy (level2 by type of fiction)
- Fiction.A-H (level 2 by title A-H, for those books that don't fit into my sub-collection bucket by subject)

Once I started doing sub-collections, I started doing it for smaller collections, to make it easier to organize and find my books. This is especially when I know I am going to add more books into that collection.

Most of my books are non-fiction, so subject organization is easy.

But fiction is much harder, for me. I am still trying to figure out how to organize them, probably by genre/type of fiction/sci-fi. I have 500+ fiction and 300+ sci-fi books.

Why so MANY books?
When I can get books for "free" from Amazon, I grab it NOW, to read later.

10-22-2017, 02:05 AM	#53
ac12a Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2017 Device: Kindle	I browse a collection when I am looking for a book in a particular subject, such as photography (which is how I make my collections). I try to limit the number of books in a collection to less than 150. More than that and browsing a collection becomes difficult. So I break larger collections down into sub-collections. This was originally driven by the Kindle2 where I could only see 10 books on a screen. So browsing through a 200 book collection meant paging through 20 screens. I determined that 10 screens was a practical maximum for a collection on the K2. The sub-collections make finding books easier in a large collection of several hundred books. Example - food (as the level 1 collection) - food.breads (as the level 2 collection, or sub-collection) For others like fiction - Fiction (level 1) - Fiction.historical (level2 by type of fiction) - Fiction.fantasy (level2 by type of fiction) - Fiction.A-H (level 2 by title A-H, for those books that don't fit into my sub-collection bucket by subject) Once I started doing sub-collections, I started doing it for smaller collections, to make it easier to organize and find my books. This is especially when I know I am going to add more books into that collection. Most of my books are non-fiction, so subject organization is easy. But fiction is much harder, for me. I am still trying to figure out how to organize them, probably by genre/type of fiction/sci-fi. I have 500+ fiction and 300+ sci-fi books. Why so MANY books? When I can get books for "free" from Amazon, I grab it NOW, to read later.