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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I agree that tags are potentially even better than folders, but are probably harder to implement on a low-end Reader. Perhaps if a vendor fully embraced Calibre as its off-line catalogue creation tool, then tags would be viable.
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Creating and maintaining folders or tags on the reading device itself does not seem the correct approach to me. Eventually your collection will outgrow storage, then what happens? What if you spend all this time organizing and typing in keywords and you trip and drop your reader down a sewer? What if you get another device with different capabilities?
So the catalog should be on a computer/media server/web repository, with proper backup procedures, and you just have a subset on your portable device at any given time (and maybe an offline copy of that subset of the catalog which your device is capable of reading), and a convenient way to download to your device. As such you can have very sophisticated cataloguing abilities without being restricted to the reading device's capabilities. Like iPod+iTunes, or yes, Calibre with your favorite ebook reader.
Ideally, it would all be in the cloud and accessible from anywhere you have an internet connection, work with a variety of media and devices, and handle format conversions and file sharing as permitted by copyright and the permissions you set, etc.
I haven't seen anything yet approaching what I would want to see (well, Kindle has some elements of it) but I expect things will evolve rapidly.