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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That's called COLLECTIONS! As long as your books are only residing on the internal memory that is. You can setup collections to help sort your books how ou want. It you want to to it by letter groups like a phone index then go for it.
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But I
can't set up collections. Internal memory or not. After all, I have no computer on which Sony's &^%$^&%$^ Reader software will run. And the third-party interfaces don't support collections yet. And even if they did, that would only give one level of hierarchy. For one sort (author or book). And it would have to be maintained manually. I'm looking for three or four levels for each of title and author sort.
While I'm at it... please note that I'm not suggesting that this be the only way for things to work. Rather, I'm suggesting that Sony provide it as an
option for those of us who want to have large numbers of books on the reader. Perhaps a configuration choice that lets you choose the biggest acceptable number of pages in a list of (book or authors), so that when the list is larger than N pages it switches to hierarchical display. Then, have a setting for "never use hierarchical display" and make that the default. Voila! Folks who want a simple interface get what they have today. Folks with a zillion books get something that works for them.
I just now thought of the perfect analogy for the system I'm after: A library card-catalog. Remember those? A wall of drawers labeled to show what range of entries are in each drawer. Anyone who reads enough to want to put several hundred books (or more) on their reader is highly likely to be familiar with that concept.
The key thought here is that I don't want to take away any of the current simplicity! Instead, I want a solution that adequately serves those with nearly-full 2GB cards as well as those who keep only a few books on the Reader.