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Originally Posted by Bert
But with the iLiad you had a hierarchical folder system, even better than the categories most others (like sony) offers on its readers. So the concept clearly occurred to iRex, and earlier than most others at that ... so the question is why they didn't think it was necessary now?
I have to admit I also find this omission bizarre. They state themselves that "You can store thousands of books on the 2GB Micro-SD memory card."; How do they expect you keep this manageable by dumping everything in a big list?
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It's similar to Cybook Opus' library view (not the folder view):
You can have folders on your card. I do this, to have my books separated by file format. On the reader itself,
all books within these subfolders are shown like on Kindle - as a single instance of books. You can sort those by author, title or last read - as on Kindle or Cybook Opus' library view.
I don't find that too troublesome. Whether I've got a folder "James Patterson" or simply sort by author doesn't make much of a difference to me. Using stylus and "ruler" on the right, you directly can jump to the respective letter.
But of course they could have left it optional. Like Cybook Opus, which offers library view (all books in a single instance)
and folder view (hierarchical structure).