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Originally Posted by ac12a
Amazon has done a really poor job of implementing collections.
Collections has tremendous potential as the 3rd function of a traditional library card catalog, the SUBJECT search.
But in 3 implementations, Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac, and "Manage your content," they stumbled.
#1 - The list of collections is out of order. This might be fine for those with only a few collections. But for those of us with MANY collections, looking for a specific collection is difficult, remember the list of collection is out of order, so you can't just go to the middle looking for a collection starting with M. That collection could be ANYPLACE in the list of collections. And the problem gets worse as you add more collections.
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You do know that you can change the sort, right?
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#2 - When you go to add a book to a collection, that list of collections is also out of order, so finding the collection to assign to the book becomes a PiA.
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But you can search for the collection by name when you're adding the book to the collection, so...
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#3 - In "manage your content," there are several problems
- The window of collections only lists FIVE collections. This is a very small window to search through, when one has 50, 75, 100+ collections.
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Again...you can search for collection by name when you're adding books to collections
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- It appears that there is a max number of collections.
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This one I don't know about, as I haven't run into any limit. If there is a limit, though, it's more than 79, which is the number of collections I have. [edit] I just added another 22 collections, to see if I could go over 100. I was successful. I then deleted all 22 of them.
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- The list of collections is in "most recent" order, which does me very little good when looking for a specific collection to add the book to. An alternate ALPHA sort is what is needed.
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...and this exists. Just to the right of where it says "Show: Collections" it says "Sort By:" with a drop down list. The choices in the drop down are:
Name: A-Z
Name: Z-A
Created Date: Oldest-Newest
Created Date: Newest-Oldest
Modified Date: Oldest-Newest
Modified Date: Newest-Oldest
It seems to default to "Modified Date: Newest-Oldest
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- I cannot edit the name of a collection, nor delete a duplicate collection.
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I was able to do both of these things.
Shari