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I suppose this might be seen as a feature request...
Would it be possible to add a 'browse authors' feature to PRS+?
The 'browse by folder' option could be used for this if the books were arranged in folders by author, but it has the shortcoming that it can't be used directly on the SD card without having to transfer the book to the main memory.
If you think about how easy it is to navigate through tens of thousands of songs on an ipod, it seems bizarre that the same isn't possible on the PRS 505.
The ipod doesn't browse by folders, it uses a database. The only difference is that the software is written properly, so that the database is accessible in a logical manner.
I (and I suspect many other people) had the dream of carrying around my whole library on my PRS 505, only to discover that this is practically impossible.
If the 'sort books by author' feature could be modified to display a list of authors, rather than every book sorted by author, this would then be a practical thing to do.
I don't know enough about the way the firmware works to tell if this would be viable, or if the only way to do it would be to use the 'browse by folder' technique, but if it could be done I think we'd all have the device we originally wanted.
What I would love to see would be:
Books, Browse By Author ->
Authors:
A-C
D-F
G-I
J-L
M-O
P-R
S-U
V-Z
Selecting one would give a list of authors from, for example, A-C, ten to a page.
Selecting an author would bring up a list of that author's books in alphabetical order, ten to a page.
The only real difference from the original firmware would be the addition of a page to select authors from a list. Surely that wouldn't be difficult?
This tiny extra step would make a collection of thousands of books by hundreds of authors easily accessible, and seems so obvious to me that I really can't think why Sony didn't do this to begin with.
Is this a pipe dream of mine, or is it doable?
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