[alex165]

Hello everyone! Fairly new to ereaders, I got a hand me down Kindle Keyboard a while back but broke it a few months after shoving it into a too full backpack. It was a decent enough reader but if I'm going to replace it with something new I might as well look for something that fits my needs more.

I plan on using primarily save and read fanfiction but will be using it to read ebooks as well. From my brief experience with the Kindle Keyboard I found it falling short of what I needed re: organization. The lack of ability to nest collections (or sort the works into subcategories in some way) was making everything get unruly quickly. At the very least I wanted to be able to separate out fanfiction from original works and then subdivide within each of those two categories. My ideal would be a device that would allow me leverage Calibre’s ability fine tune tags to search for multiple terms at once (for example: “unread, Star Wars” to find all files I have tagged with both) but I feel like that level of search capability is probably unlikely in an ereader.

Going through the past posts on here it seems that a common organization method is to just use Calibre as a search function to find what you want and then search for that title on the ereader/load the book on the ereader at that time but that doesn’t seem like what would work for me. The idea of having to use my phone to look for what I want to read and then the ereader or download works I want to read only when I want to read them defeats the purpose of what I want an ereader for.

Basically, I’m just looking for some advice & explanation on what kind of search and organization functions the various options have and how I could use them (I also don't mind downloading add-ons/jailbreaking a device as long as there is a decent amount of info on how to do it).

(A few other notes about what I want in an ereader: )
•Highlight and comment functionality (don’t care if its barebones, hard to export, etc. As long as it exists I’m happy).
•No ads and no need to connect to an account if all I want to do is sideload.
•Since I’ll mostly be using this for fanfiction I don’t care about what files it can read as long as I can use Calibre to generate them.
•It doesn't have to be a new or current model. If an older version of something works better and can be found 2nd hand I don't mind doing a bit of legwork to find one.

Thanks in advance for your help!