Thread: Why do you prefer Kobo ereaders to Amazon ereaders
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Old 10-28-2021, 08:14 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
I prefer the android "library" system. It's just system folders, a natural function of The OS. I find messing with collections in calibre a superfluous pain. Much easier to simply use a file explorer to drag the file into the appropriate folder on the reader. Done. I appreciate this doesnt include meta data. What does the average user use metada for, other than author, title, and maybe series?
Except that "library" system has nothing to do with Android. It is purely the app developer deciding to use the directories and file names rather than handle the metadata as such. Which is better is very personal. I do not like directory system as it isn't flexible in the way I want it to be flexible.

As you mention collections, if I use directories, then I cannot have books in more than one collection without having multiple copies. The Kobo interface gives me multiple views of the books. These are based on the metadata in the books. The average user just sees this without thinking of it.

And the so-called average user, doesn't really use directories for anything. All the apps people are using, use metadata. Music players do. Video players. Then if we point at any streaming service, these are all built around the metadata of the media being streamed. Your average user has no idea where or how this is stored.

But, as I said, it is a personal thing. I can't be bother manually organising something that I can automatically organise. And then take advantage of the data that is used for that organisation.

And for the record, you can't be bothered to use calibre to create collections, but, you can be bothered to manually organise the files into a complex subdirectory system. I'm not sure what the difference is.


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The "average user" uses the Kindle app or the Kobo app or some other store specific app. All of these work on the metadata supplied by the store. None of these expose the file system to see where the books are.
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