Thread: Why, after all these years, is there still no easy way to manage collections?
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Old 10-29-2017, 07:57 AM   #8
John Hopper
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
I made a point of putting all our books (DH and mine) into cloud collections right from the start. Personal document ebooks and Amazon ebooks. It's a process that's automatic now so I don't have to wade through pages of books to get to I want. I agree it's a pain to start with if you have a lot of books, but it pays dividends now.

I don't need a jailbreak to manage this, or a Calibre plugboard, I simply put a new kindle book into the right collection, then match the collection when I load the books into Calibre. Between us DH and I have 63 collections.
I agree, once I got into the habit of saving every book into at least one collection, it is easy enough to maintain. My most common use case is mass adding newly downloaded parts editions of Delphi Classics, but once I've emailed them to my device, I can add them all to, say, my 19th century literature collection by going into the collection, pressing add/remove, and reordering them into most recent first, then ticking them all. It could be a little easier, but it was fine once I'd worked out how to do this. I don't use Calibre, largely because I don't have a Windows device.
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