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Originally Posted by ephestione
Wow I spawned an energetic exchange of opinions! this is exciting 
Having I shelled 110€ back then for my 3rd (or was it 4th?) generation paperwhite, which does exactly the basic stuff (letting me read and staying powered long enough between charges) I do not intend to buy a Kobo (which was indeed among my options before I bought the kindle, but was more expensive and less "powerful", hardware wise) because I would need to learn something new, spend more money, and re-sell my kindle for next to nothing...
Any high level programming language allows for extremely easy "sort by name" coding, my objection towards the kindle firmware is that they wouldn't bother adding that, "so we can keep pushing our own market system not giving sideloading guys any benefits that would be extremely cheap to us anyway".
In the end I will work around it by keeping a "book order.txt" on my kindle, instead of going through a device switch that wouldn't even solve the basic missig feature, still...
I hope I made myself clear, yet it was more venting that anything else.
STUPID KINDLE FIRMWARE
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Jailbreak your Kindle and install KoReader if you are so addicted to technology that was old in the 1980s. Though KoReader will use the calibre metadata store to allow searching.
Admittedly I'm using a Kobo which has series sort and can search on title, author, series, subtitle, etc. which makes locating a book in a 11K ebook collection a lot faster than trying to find a book by filename. Especially when I consider I have many series with multiple authors where search is the only usable solution. Take a look at the 1632 series where the main line runs to 26 books with 15 authors involved.