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Originally Posted by kevin_boone
Calibre has the ability to create collections, too. It does this automatically based on tags in the books metadata.
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Thanks! I gave the meta data screen the most cursory of looks, and didn't see anything obviously, but now I know to look a bit harder.
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But given that memory is cheap and ebooks are small, it is sad that support for large collections hasn't been properly thought through.
The lack of organization/navigation facilities is the only thing, in my view, that lets down an otherwise excellent device.
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I would have to agree it doesn't seem well-suited to handling large collections. One thing that is really perplexing to me, is that when you view by author, all it does is sort by author. I was expecting a more ipod-like "by artist" where you would see a list of authors, and then you'd click down another level, showing just that author's books (in isolation). I don't have many books on mine yet, and I cliked the P Q R S alpha selection for the author, and I still got Kaiten Nukariya, Lewis Carroll, and Okakura Kakuzo...all ahead of Plato...and William Shakespeare is also on the same page...
Those are K, L, O and W authors showing up when I selected P Q R S. It's still all in order, and I definitely got all the P-S authors on that page, but it's not what I expected and it's visually noisy.
I can hit T U V, which reports "no book", and it still lists all my books. That's not "no book".
And there doesn't seem to be a fast way back to the alpha-index. Since the alpha-index is page 1 of the sort, if you had a lot of books and you're on page 10, you can't just hit "1" and go back to page one, because "1" would select whatever book is at slot one. Hitting menu to go back up a level , and then "3" to go back to the author just returns you to the last page you looked at, so there's really no easy way to get back to the index short of paging all the way back there.
Whoever made the suggestion about carrying around various SD cards...I'm starting to like that suggestion. I think it might be time to hunt down all my retired camera SD cards! they're all pretty small...less than 512 megs. Would be perfect for this sort of thing.