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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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I still don’t see how it helps to have a Westerns collection. What if there are 300 books in there? Great, now you have narrowed your search to 300, which is not very helpful. If I know author or part of the title you can Search and get it much faster. If you are ‘just browsing’ for a Western, maybe, but then you have to put in the sweat to make that possible. And while you might have the knack and interest to be a librarian, not that many people do.
You are actually making my point about Yahoo: it didn’t work, and people were desperate for alternatives, thus we have Google etc.