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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Just to sort stuff, because I don't use collections. Folders have two advantages. Simplicity, and interoperability. Mac, windows, Android, and synology's DSM, it just works. All you need is good old file browser.
I guess some with larger collections need something more, but with the number of books I have, folders are good enough.
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My issue with folders is basically that I used to end up with folders full of aliases/shortcuts/links. Books that are multi-author, series that are multi-author (1632 as an example), books that are multi-series (book 4 in one series and book 1 in the spin-off, etc.). Now I just let calibre worry about where the book is physically located. If I want a book, search works to find it quickly and likely faster than digging through my old directory structure.
Admittedly, I also don't bother with collections on my KA1 and simply use it's search capability. A while back, I was comparing finding a book using the Kobo interface compared to using KOReader with a directory structure and found that finding the book using search took, on the average, 40% of the taps required by finding the same book in the directory structure. KOReader now implements search using the calibre metadata file(s) so much closer in the number of taps needed but that drops the need for a directory structure.