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Originally Posted by emolina
Please consider the case where you have six screen-fulls of comics arranged alphabetically. You want to move your ten issues of 'Zebra tales' into a folder named 'Africa'.
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I take your point, and I'm not saying "you're wrong", what I will say is that ComicZeal could have done a much better job of implementing just that feature, even within its current interface:
Tap edit. Tap each of the issues you want to move. Drag them onto another issue to form a "long box" or drag them onto an existing collection. The issues move.
Simple. Easy. Direct. Consonant with other programs, and hence obvious.
ComicZeal even does something similar, but kludged: tap popover to see the collection, tap edit, tap many issues, tap move, new popover, select what you want, tap save, tap done, close popover.
Convoluted, indirect, idiosyncratic, not easily discoverable. All strong reasons not to do it this way.
The issue management features of ComicZeal are badly designed. "Move to rename" is another example, as is hiding all of the content (issues and collections) in a popover (wasting good cover art, which the iPad could display beautifully). There are just better ways of doing these things.