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Originally Posted by Alisa
If you're managing your files via your computer and a USB connection, you can just drag files into the folders and there you go. However, that's limiting since it can only be in one folder. You could copy it, I suppose, but keeping your bookmarks, etc.
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I agree with you that tags and queries by tags seem to be a superset of folders, and more flexible.
One nice thing about tags vs. folders shows up when you consider USB. Via USB someone can create folders from their desktop. When USB is unplugged the folder scheme could be "imported" into the Kindle SW as "tags", along with any other tags the user has created. As you point out this even works with nested folders. There are some edge cases to consider if names collide. I also would think some complexity arises if a user tries to modify one these implied/auto tags on the Kindle (need to propagate change back to file system?); perhaps disallow that.
With this scheme - folder folks mostly get what they want from a functional perspective, but maybe it doesn't look like "folders" on Kindle. Taggers have what they want - those that don't want to organize aren't forced to.