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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
actually i'm starting to think collections might be *better* than folders. i can add more than one tag to a book and it will then appear in several collections ... which you can't do with folders.
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Of course you CAN have the same file in many different folders. Even on Windows. (**)
Other operating systems have (and have had for a looooong time) hardlinks and symlinks.
Operating systems, like, for example, Linux, that is at the heart of the Reader.
A bunch of data, that is contains file content on disk has an ionode address (basically a number). Directories are just special files that contain names of files that reside in the directory together with ionode where each of the files resides. It is not a problem for bunch of files to have the same ionode address. So when you create another link (or symlink) - an 'instance' of file you do not copy data, you just use the same ionode address.
For better explanation see wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
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hardlink on XP
FSUTIL hardlink create <new filename> <existing filename>
see
http://www.ss64.com/nt/fsutil.html
Symlink in XP
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
LINKD Link [/D] Target
see
http://www.ss64.com/nt/mklink.html