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Originally Posted by BertieWooster

Replaced my old Kindle today with a brand new Kobo Clara HD (updated with the latest firmware 4.30.18838).

The query concerns if the Kobo is able to replicate the Kindle Collections plugin under Calibre that I have set up for my current book layout.

I have a Star Wars book collection which for each book I would set the author option to the period in time and its read order then in the Calibre Kindles Collection plugin with sort them into a folder for the period of time which itself was in another folder for the publishing era.

Layout Example on Kindle:

Spoiler:

+---2) Old Republic era
| +---01) c. 5,000 - 4975 BBY
| | 01 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Precipice
| | 02 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Skyborn
| | 03 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Paragon
| | 04 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Savior
| |
| +---02) 3,960 BBY
| | 01 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Purgatory
| | 02 Lost Tribe of the Sith - Sentinel
| |
+---3) Rise of the Empire era
| +---01) 89 BBY and 76 BBY and 44 BBY and 22 BBY
| | 01 Legacy of the Jedi
| |
| +---02) 67 BBY - 32 BBY
| | 01 Darth Plagueis

I have had a try with KoboUtilities plugin in Calibre with the collections column set to author and able to make a collection on the device itself but can't seem to add a folder inside a folder.

Hoping someone new to this reader can help at all, thank you.

You can't nest collections on a Kobo ereader. OTOH, you can put a book into multiple collections.