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Originally Posted by tomsem
Collections are completely unnecessary if you do not have more than a few dozen books on device (for me, it is generally less than a couple of dozen).
If you have hundreds or thousands on device, then you had better have a way to set them up with something like calibre.
I have something like 4500 books in calibre, 90% are in my Kindle library, downloadable in seconds. There is no system for organizing them that I am willing to spend any time maintaining, and I have no sense that it would be of any use to me even if it didn't take time. I have no issues finding something good to read quickly without such a system.
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I didn't use collections on my Kindles either, but I did have a calibre-generated catalog with my genres and tags on every Kindle, in case I wanted to browse a specific genre or tag. Yes, you can do without collections, but it's nice to have them, and a Kobo reader populates them automatically from Calibre. Of course you'll have to maintain them in Calibre then.
As I have over 30,000 books in Calibre, I couldn't find anything without organizing them there. Last I used a Kindle, I had about 3,000 books on my Oasis, all sideloaded. I never used the Amazon cloud for downloading for various reasons, not even for books purchased from Amazon. All my Kindles were almost always offline.