Nook user looking at options with folders/shelves etc

[DuncanWatson]

I am a nook user and planning on migrating to another device in the near future. I have a lot of nooks and books in the B&N ecosystem. One of the features I am looking for is similar to what the Nook Color tablet had in its shelf feature. I was able to buy/pre-order a book and easily add it to a shelf "unread". I then moved books as I read them into shelves by month/year. Books could be in multiple shelves. This could be easily done on the e-reader itself without having to view a list of all books and select a checkbox of the books I wanted on the shelf. Unfortunately this feature never made it into the eink versions of the nook. The UI there is horrible for shelves. I am not interested in nook features at this time.

So does the Kindle have anything like this? Can I manage my books on the device and create folders or shelves or collections or tags or what-have-you that gives me this kind of functionality? I don't require it be shared on all devices but I do want to manage this on the device itself not on a PC or web browser.

[HarryT]

The Kindle has collections, which work much as you describe. The same book can be in multiple collections, and collections can be managed on the device.

[DuncanWatson]

I did a little digging after the post and discovered the same thing. My early searches failed due to incorrect terminology.

Can sideloaded content via the kindle email be placed in collections?

[HarryT]

The term "sideloading" is generally used only to refer to books transferred to the device via USB. If you email a book to Amazon, it gets stored in Amazon's Cloud storage.

Both sideloaded books and those downloaded from Cloud storage can be put in collections, yes.

[davidfor]

The collections on the Kobo ereaders work in a similar way as well. Books can be on multiple collections; from the library lists, a book can be put onto one or more collections; from the collection list, books can be selected, including via a search, to be added to a collection. About the only thing that is missing is while reading, adding a book to a collection.

And if you are a calibre user, it can maintain the collections on Kobo ereader.

[DuncanWatson]

Is the Kindle collection thing a checklist of all the books you own? Because that is the same as the nook shelf interface on the simple touch and I have >700 books. Paging through that to add one book to a collection is pretty horrible. And I don't want to do this on my PC if at all possible, most because the main use for me is to keep pre-ordered books in a folder/shelf/collection of their own.

[eschwartz]

You can manage books in collections on the Kindle two ways -- by managing the collection itself, which offers a list of all books and you can check which ones you want in the collection, or by managing the book, which will show a list of collections that the book is/can be in.

Either way, you can sort the collections/books by the usual sorting options, i.e. Recent, Title, Author.

[DuncanWatson]

Excellent news. The Nook simple touch only allows the first way and has no sorting.

[HarryT]

The Kindle also has useful shortcuts, such as being able to add an entire page of books to a collection at once. Particularly useful when sorting books by author.

[eschwartz]

I never knew about that! But I just looked and found it under the Menu.

Apparently even I can learn things.

[DuncanWatson]

I made the switch last Friday and have been organizing everything from my nook. It has been a good choice and given the options I believe the Kindle platform is the best at the moment.