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Originally Posted by shalym
Exactly--what I want to see is my starred collections followed by the books not in them...that's my point. Why in the world would I want the collected books showing in the list along with the collections that they are in? This has made collections useless as a tool to quickly find books on my device, to the point where I may as well not show them on the device at all and only use the search function.
Shari
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shalym
Exactly--what I want to see is my starred collections followed by the books not in them...that's my point. Why in the world would I want the collected books showing in the list along with the collections that they are in? This has made collections useless as a tool to quickly find books on my device, to the point where I may as well not show them on the device at all and only use the search function.
Shari
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I would suggest keeping the Downloaded filter on for the most part. Then you’ll only see collections that have downloads in them. Of course Uncollected has all of the books not in collections, but you have to open it to see them listed (or gridded, actually).
(And yes, not sure whose idea it was to make Downloaded a filter. It works, but it takes extra tap to turn it on, where before it was a toggle. At least so far, this idea hasn’t migrated to the Kindle apps. Hope it doesn’t!)
I sort of understand the idea of using collections to help find books, but I never cared to put in the housekeeping (including ‘collection design’) that would make that effective. I have 3000+ books and realistically the only way to find them is Search: I wouldn’t know which collection I’d put them in, and even if I did know, it’s too inefficient to navigate to the collection and then to a book inside of one.
Collections as implemented for Kindle are more like tags rather than folders, despite the way they appear visually in the interface. But as tags they are crippled: you should be able to filter and search your library by more than one tag at a time as it’s perfectly normal for a book to have more than category or property of interest. And as they are not really folders, you cannot nest them as one might like to. Neither fish nor fowl.
I think Amazon did pretty well with Series grouping (US and UK only I think?) and think we’ll see Author grouping in the next year or so.
Genre grouping is probably too much to hope for, but if we’re allowed to dream, they’d automatically tag books by category and let you use those to search and filter using those (and let you add custom ones).