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Originally Posted by tomsem
Collections actually make it harder to find books. You have to somehow know what collections the book is in. And you have to spend all of the time to organize.
If you recall in the early days of the Internet, Yahoo was all the rage because they organized the web into categories. There was no way to search. But which category is the page in? Good luck figuring it out.
Finding things on the web with Search is what everyone does now, and nobody bothers to organize the web into categories. And that is the most efficient way to find a book among 10000 of them.
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That's only true if you don't have distinct genres or badly selected collections. You may want to browse Westerns or Detective or Romance or Classic SF, not a particular title, which all ereaders can do without the Kindle power hungry indexing of entire books. I've rarely needed global contents search as I'm looking for a genre, author or title. Or else searching the book I'm reading, which all ereaders can do. But I manage my library with Calibre, not Amazon's broken Cloud tools.
Oh, and I despised Yahoo because they were clueless. They and AOL tried to control users. Bad example.