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6charlong · 09-02-2009, 06:09 PM

I have a Pocket Pro on order and am now waiting on US Customs. While I wait I've been downloading books from MobleRead, Feedbooks and Google Books to my PC. I've downloaded quite a few already. With all the formats the PPro supports I've downloaded ePub and Mobi books plus a few PDFs formatted for a 6-inch screen, just to see how that works out.

As you all know, the PPro supports folders, which I've never had on a book reader before. (I've never had 16GB to work with before either.) I was wondering what others are doing about organizing your folders. Do you create folders by:

A. format
B. genre
C. DRM status
D. era it was written in
E. source of the book like MobleRead, Fictionwise, B&N (OK, I'm being optomistic here about secure eReader coming soon), Books on Board, etc.

If you use big categories like "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" (is there another that I missed?), does it display well on screen if you use just two top folders? If you use top folders like that do you break your books up in separate folders for:

A. author, or
B. into subcategories like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children, Historical Fiction, History, Science, etc?

And if you use subcategories, how do you decide what subcategories to use? The bookstores don't always agree on which genre a book belongs in anyway and the libraries I've looked at locally use mysterious filing systems, and they're not always the same from one library to another. One college library even uses two different systems in different parts of the building. But the libraries have indexes to look things up and I don't expect the Pocket Pro to do that.

On the Sony this is simple; it doesn't work very well, but it's simple: you drop all the books in one physical location on the Reader, then create "Collections" using the Sony Library software. Next you drag-and-drop the books from their original location into the Collection you want to put them in. The device actually just creates a pointer within Categories that points to the book at its original location; I have a lot of books that I've put in more than one Category. With directories, if you want to put a book in more than one place, do you make a second copy of the book in the new folder? or do the the Hanlin devices support pointers?

Folders for my books is new territory for me. Getting this put together and copied onto an SD card while I wait seemed like a useful way to wile away the time.

09-02-2009, 06:09 PM	#1
6charlong friendly lurker Posts: 896 Karma: 2436026 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US Device: Kindle, nook, Apple and Kobo	Folders While You Wait I have a Pocket Pro on order and am now waiting on US Customs. While I wait I've been downloading books from MobleRead, Feedbooks and Google Books to my PC. I've downloaded quite a few already. With all the formats the PPro supports I've downloaded ePub and Mobi books plus a few PDFs formatted for a 6-inch screen, just to see how that works out. As you all know, the PPro supports folders, which I've never had on a book reader before. (I've never had 16GB to work with before either.) I was wondering what others are doing about organizing your folders. Do you create folders by: A. format B. genre C. DRM status D. era it was written in E. source of the book like MobleRead, Fictionwise, B&N (OK, I'm being optomistic here about secure eReader coming soon), Books on Board, etc. If you use big categories like "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" (is there another that I missed?), does it display well on screen if you use just two top folders? If you use top folders like that do you break your books up in separate folders for: A. author, or B. into subcategories like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children, Historical Fiction, History, Science, etc? And if you use subcategories, how do you decide what subcategories to use? The bookstores don't always agree on which genre a book belongs in anyway and the libraries I've looked at locally use mysterious filing systems, and they're not always the same from one library to another. One college library even uses two different systems in different parts of the building. But the libraries have indexes to look things up and I don't expect the Pocket Pro to do that. On the Sony this is simple; it doesn't work very well, but it's simple: you drop all the books in one physical location on the Reader, then create "Collections" using the Sony Library software. Next you drag-and-drop the books from their original location into the Collection you want to put them in. The device actually just creates a pointer within Categories that points to the book at its original location; I have a lot of books that I've put in more than one Category. With directories, if you want to put a book in more than one place, do you make a second copy of the book in the new folder? or do the the Hanlin devices support pointers? Folders for my books is new territory for me. Getting this put together and copied onto an SD card while I wait seemed like a useful way to wile away the time.