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Originally Posted by droopy
Ah,
Reading
Unread
Finished
Imported
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For me, these Filter-Lists are helpful, but I sometimes want to read on a whim some particular subject.
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That both is and isn't what I meant. I'd like other filters. Such as in the Series tab, only show series with more than one book. Or with unread books. Or use a name filter. Those would be useful in the collection list as well.
Of course the thing I'd really like to be able to do is combine the existing filters. It would be good to use the reading state filters (Reading, Unread, Finished) with the source filters (Imported, Purchased, Overdrive, etc.).
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That's when I'd like to a stroll through my Collections. So for me, the more Collections I have, the more interesting. It seems you all are saying that I'm using it the wrong way. It seems this is because of the slowness of Collections. Maybe in a future generation of ereaders, when ereaders are as snappy as today's smartphones, you all won't discourage me from using Collections the way I do.
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Whether you are using Collections the wrong way is up to you. @DNSB doesn't find them that useful. I have a smallish set of collections that I do find useful. I have tried tags, genre and some other combinations at different times, and they didn't work for me. Either I end up with a lot of collections with a few books in each, or fewer collections with a lot of books in each. The latter works better for me, but, in some ways, it ends up being the same as browsing through the main library.
The collections I have tend to be more task oriented. I have a "Test samples" collection for all the books I create or get for testing things on the device. And about a third of them were created to test something (and I need to clean up more often). I have collections created from my book source (where I bought the book). They are mainly to have the "Kobo" collection. That has all the books I have purchased from Kobo and is basically the same as the "Purchased" filter. But, with this collection I can use the other filters and only see the unread when looking for a book.