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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
It is an issue?
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Heck yes! In particular, it's a big problem for those of us who have hundreds of books on the reader. Most of them on an external-card, of course.
Collections on the external card would help a ton with keeping track of series and the order of books. It would also be one more way to (slightly) ease the problem of navigating to the book you want when the list of books is 60 or 70 pages long.
Various folks have suggested that Sony left out this feature (along with hierarchical navigation of some sort) in order to make the device as simple as possible -- sort of a KISS decision. This might have been a good choice for some portion of their audience... but they forgot to think about the really heavy readers amongst us. Like me! Just who did they think would be springing for a $350 single-purpose book reader anyway? Seems like a no-brainer that it would be the folks at the intersection of gadget-freaks, early adopters, and heavy readers. And a
large fraction of such folks have no problem with hierarchy. AND have the desire to have many many documents on the device at any given time.
So... How 'bout it, Sony? When will you do something to make it easier for us to manage 500 to 1000 books on the reader? Collections on the external memory card? Hierarchy of some sort that actually works? These things can be OFF by default, if the KISS thing is really at issue here.
Xenophon