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Old 10-21-2009, 01:59 PM   #360
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Originally Posted by phenomshel View Post
you can also browse the content on nook a number of ways: by type (eBooks vs subscriptions vs other content you've loaded on nook, for instance), by title, or by author.
You can also use the touchscreen keyboard to search for the particular eBook or content. (We'll be getting a picture of the keyboard on the site soon.)
You can't put your eBooks into "folders" or tags at this time, but we've heard the request, and we're looking into it for down the road. (Thanks for the suggestion.)"
That doesn't sound promising for a 1000-ebook collection, much less a 5000+ ebook collection.

No folders, no tags can mean an awful lot of scrolling. I read Harlequin romances. I tag them as "romance." I sure don't want to have to wade through my entire author list trying to remember who wrote what, and the titles are a blur of inanity. (I think Harlequin ran out of good titles in about 1982.)

I also read a lot of fanfic, and sometimes I'll download and convert an entire fest's worth of fic at a time. (Fests are writing exchange contests where up to several dozen authors exchange stories on a themed topic.) I tag those with the fest name or abbreviation--again, when I want to find them, I don't want to scroll through hundreds (or thousands!) of authors or titles, trying to remember which ones are attached to that fest.

Amazing how they hype how many books it can hold... but shy away from discussing how bad the software is at actually dealing with full capacity.

(Presumably, it'll have an alphabet to jump to authors or titles of that starting letter, because otherwise it would be too painful to even think about. But that still doesn't help finding themed collections by different authors.)
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