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Originally Posted by kacir
Zelda said that the collections were actually better than folders because THE SAME file can "be" in several collections at the same time.
My point was that you can have the same file in several *folders* as well. Most of the devices run Linux and if they had true folders it would be trivial to add functionality to have the same file in several folders using either hard links or symbolic links.
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that's a good point. actually what i was really trying to say (sorry i was unclear) is that i see collections as "virtual folders" with this added functionality of hard / symbolic links to propagate the same file into multiple collections very easily. this *is* possible with folders in some systems, as you say, but it's a function many people are not aware of and wouldn't know how to use. i know it exists but wouldn't have the first idea how to implement it...
although, for me it's unimportant on my pc (for my ebooks, anyway) because i only use the collections on my liseuse. my library is catalogued in calibre and i can use tags there (which also can be considered, for the sake of argument, "virtual folders").
anyway, it seems to me that the collections system is very close to folders using links already.