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Old 05-31-2007, 09:05 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Well... I'll repeat my plea for hierarchical selection using the number keys. With 10 buttons, you should be able to get to any of 1000 books no more than three button presses by selecting your way in 1/10th of the books at each level. Thus, you'd push the button for "Kill... to Now...," then the button for "Kill One... to Kraft..." then the button for "Kill One for the Gipper" (all titles completely bogus). Each button offers you a 1/10th sub-range of the books.

It oughta be trivial to program this up for selection-by-title and selection-by-author. And it would make dealing with large libraries convenient!

Is anyone listening? Firmware Hackers? Sony???

Beuhler?
While such a system as you describe may be good for you, but it would be almost impossible to use for the average user that Sony wants to sell the Reader to.

KISS -- Keep It Simple Stupid is the mantra for file organization when dealing with the public. Press forward or back until you find the title of the book you want in the alphabetical list. Simple enough for my Mother-in-law to use.

If you want a subdirectory organized file system get a bunch of small SD or MS cards and put SciFi on one, classics on another, magna on a third, etc. and carry them with you so that you can slip the right one in when you need it.
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