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Originally Posted by Spiffy
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.
Even divvied up, with a mere 26 or 27 top level directories, it still takes knowing exactly what an author's name is, and how its spelled, and that presumes of course that the metadata was correct and Calibre wrote the files out correctly named and spelled.
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.
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That is why I place a copy of the Calibre Catalog in the Main Storage (books are on the SD Card.
I can look-up by Author or Series or title and know how the book was filed, Then I switch to the SD Card and go there. A PITA , but better than nothing
BTW If you highlight a selection of books and Create a catalog (give a different name), then that is what appears in the catalog.