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Old 03-01-2025, 04:58 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
Those are two drastically different scenarios, a couple of hundred vs 10 000. And your original assertion was that the number of collections gets ridiculous to scroll though, not that the number of books per collection is unwieldy.
The 10,000/50 was not my suggestion. And as for the hundreds? To make collections useful for me, I needed fine granularity and that results in a large number of collections. Eventually, I gave up this much as I gave up on creating a directory structure to allowing finding and managing my ebook collection on my computer. The game was not worth the candle.

And what I was saying is that if you have a large number of books and a small number of collections, the number of books in each collection gets large and a pain to scroll through. If you go for finer granularity in creating collections, the number of collections gets large and a pain to scroll through.

For my purposes, search is a much more refined method of locating books.

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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
I imagine that that proportion of Kobo customers who have 10 000 books on their device rounds to zero. And the number of collections (not books per collection) is whatever the user wants it to be.
Too small a number of collections is useless for locating a book. Too large a number of collections takes too many pages at 5 per page to scroll through making them almost as useless.
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