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Over the years, I have occasionally wiped my Kindle of all books and then found the books that should be on it and resent them. I have a customized column for WHERE that tells me if the book has been read, underconsideration, onKindle or blank. Then, I have a WANT column that takes a Zero best to Nine not interested approach to how badly I want to read the book.
So, having wiped the kindle of all books, I now query for WHERE:"=onKindle" and then sort into DESCENDING order on the WANT COLUMN. My template for the loading onto the kindle includes putting the WANT rating at the beginning ([3] for example) of the title. Having gotten the books into the right loading order, I select them all and tell them to load up the Kindle, 9's before 8's before 7's etc. I DO have nines, which are almost always manuals. Now, I have NEVER tried loading 10K of books. I think I have topped out at about 400. I run maybe 200 these days.
BUT, whether I sort by book title (I get the zero's that I'm hot to read right off the top, with the titles sorted alphanumerically after that or on add order (having the zero's load last mean they float to the top in that way too), I have a Kindle that is responsive to my faux reading order list.
The reason I go to this bother is that I add books to the Kindle in batches. So I have zero's being added after nine's and sometimes before. If I'm in newest order, I'll have to scroll backwards through tens of pages to see all my zeroes. I usually use that sort order on the Kindle because it comfortably moves the most recently viewed to the top, which might be a mix of a manual or two, some books started that I haven't decided to continue or not, some magazines where I'm bookmarked at the next story to be read and whatever I'm reading right now (Liaden Universe books as it happens).
My big problem? WAAAAAAAAY too many zero's to read while supposedly eating, sleeping and (I assume the Boss might see this) working.
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