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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I think Amazon (or Sony for that matter) won't be doing any kind of folders unless they can dumb down their use to the lowest common denominator.
Coming from over a year of using a 505 it would be nice to have 'collections' or something similar but it's certainly not a deal breaker.
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Collections
are folders. I have a 505 and I can certainly see why K2 owners would want folders.
I use calibre to organize my 505. calibre lets me put tags - multiple tags, even - on all my files, so that when they show up on the 505, they are sorted by tag in the Collections menu. In other words, I have a separate Collection item for each tag, containing all the files with that particular tag.
I am finding that I tend to read articles that I download from the internet (Mac > Firefox > print to pdf > run through calibre to tag > move to 505 with calibre button) more than books. So I can sort the articles by magazine, author, type - whatever I want.
For instance, I ran across an archive of articles by Christopher Hitchens, one of my favorite writers, despite our having opposing political views, and downloaded a dozen tagged "Hitchens," so I can read them like I eat the chocolates from a box - one a day (okay, one every ten minutes...the chocolates, that is...)
Collections is one of the two main reasons I've stuck with the 505, the other being that the 505 has a better form factor.
Now, I have my books sorted by some rather simple categories, but even those are quite helpful in navigating the device. Why Amazon doesn't grasp the usefulness of folders is beyond me. I wonder if they really understand the mentality of so many people who read - the need to categorize, organize, count, & sometimes just look at the books they've read.
I'm assuming that the K2 doesn't let the user tag files, or have a Collections type menu item.