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Originally Posted by theducks
I created folders by the Authors Last name initial so there should only be 4 pages of folders at the first level
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I agree that having "alphabetical" directories at the top level is the ONLY way to have ANY sanity using this product, if like me you insist on having most of your eBook collection on it at any one time. Any at all. I love the device overall, but the interface is a nightmare. Before I figured out how to have Calibre send books out in alpha directories, with author directories under each top level letter directory, I sat there like a dummy spending minutes at a time hitting the page down button just to look for files with the misfortune of being in the later part of the alphabet.
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To cap things off, I then have a series, if the book is in one, be the next directory down, then the actual filename reverses the usual file naming I use on my PC (author last name, author first name - series series# - title), because its unnecessary to see the author up front in a structured subdirectory like that, and instead the whole thing is written out (directory path AND filename) like this:
top level/B/Burroughs, Edgar Rice/Tarzan/Tarzan 02 - The Return of Tarzan - Burroughs, Edgar Rice.epub
All the info is STILL kept in the filename, even though its reversed, in case I ever have to copy the file BACK to my main database from that copy.
Actually using the PP, even divvied up, with a mere 26 or 27 top level directories and that efficient directory and file naming structure, it STILL takes knowing exactly what an author's name is, and how its spelled, and that presumes of course that Calibre wrote the files out correctly named and spelled in the first place. This stuff is especially wrong in a lot of self-published/small press books, and often really gets munged up if you converted formats.
Multi-author books I don't have any good system for. I kind of am just stuck with the first author in the string setting where in the alpha sort the whole thing goes.
So much needs to be done with the basic PP firmware. If an on-unit search is too much, at least a way to save Favorites. Even that Buggins guy and his alternate firmware can't do that yet, but it seems essential.