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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, that's bonkers. Because they are there ALREADY if you go to add a local book. A collection is just container. I only want the Collection names, not what is in them on Amazon. Some of those are out of date versions.
ALSO I ALREADY downloaded all my Amazon content. Why on earth would I download it again?
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This doesn't download it again: it only downloads the "collection" (a conceptual tag, a box the books go in) and shuffles the books you already have downloaded that are in that collection on the Amazon server into the collection on the device too. Books you haven't downloaded will only go "into the collection" on your device when you download them (and will do so immediately, into every collection you've downloaded).
This part of the cloud collections feature works quite well. The problem with it is that if you update your collections while you are offline, that update often *doesn't* get sent up to the cloud collections (when the entire point of them is that they're meant to be a union of all the changes you've made to collections on all your devices), so when you get a new Kindle you find that half the collections have the wrong content! ARGH! It really discourages me from buying Kindles, knowing that populating it is going to be a flaming nightmare because half my collections will be sure to be mispopulated and I'll have to audit the lot of them and repopulate them by hand.
(The real problem here is that reconciling multiple disparate updates from clients that may have been disconnected is actually a really difficult problem and the focus of active academic research: the thing to look for is "CRDT". Amazon... Amazon didn't even *try* to get it right.)