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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
On my PC, books are stored all over the place, but mostly in my Books folder where they are unorganized.
Maybe it's because collections (folders) are new to the Kindle and to me, but I only made four folders for the Kindle: To Be Read, Samples, Finished reading, and Miscellaneous. The books I'm currently reading are not in a Collection. Simple things for simple minds. The Miscellaneous folder contains mostly tech manuals and user guides.
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My description was for my master library on my desktop. Things are handled differently elsewhere. My primary ebook viewer, for example, is a Palm OS PDA, and most of my eBooks are converted to the format used by the open source Plucker offline HTML viewer for Palm devices. Plucker uses the built-in Palm OS category function, and that has a hard limit of 16, so categories on the PDA aren't always the same as on the desktop.
I also have the Palm version of the MobiPocket viewer on my PDA. Mobi substitutes Reading Lists for categories, and supports up to 32 on Palm devices. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to control the order in which they are listed - it's by date created, which is a bit of a PITA.
I'm beginning to think about a database supporting BLOBs as the master repository, where author, title, category, and other elements would be fields in a record, and the actual eBooks would be the mentioned BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Among other things, that would make it easier to handle pseudonyms and properly associate them with the real author.
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Dennis