PW2 - Collection Items over 999

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 10:30 AM

Hi:

I've been tweaking my collections and I just noticed that one of my collections wasn't saving the items that I was adding, then I noticed the number was not going over 999 even though it says it was saving the collection. Of course then when I detail into the collection the new items wasn't showing up. Does anyone have a collection that has more than 999 items in it?? Is this a quirk of my pw or once again Amazon didn't forsee this large number of items being in a collection??

Glorfindel · 03-06-2014, 10:34 AM

lol I don't even have 500 items on my kindle : ) (I'm soooo helpful aren't I?)

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Glorfindel

lol I don't even have 500 items on my kindle : ) (I'm soooo helpful aren't I?)

I have close to 4000 books in my lMYK if I include all my library borrows, but on my device I am only down to about 250-300.

jswinden · 03-06-2014, 11:04 AM

Wow 4000!

Even if you can read one book a day on average, that is 11 years worth of books. And a collection with 999 items seems like it would be difficult to find anything within it. I wish we could have sub-collections to further divide them, but Amazon cannot even get one level collections to work right. A newer, powerful tablet might be better utilizing large libraries of 4000+ books, but I cannot imagine trying to deal with that many books on an eInk reader.

susan_cassidy · 03-06-2014, 11:04 AM

I would say that if you have that many books in one collection, you might as well not have collections at all. It would be hard to navigate.

Glorfindel · 03-06-2014, 11:07 AM

yeah it'd be a tad quicker in searches but other than that...

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

Wow 4000!

Even if you can read one book a day on average, that is 11 years worth of books. And a collection with 999 items seems like it would be difficult to find anything within it. I wish we could have sub-collections to further divide them, but Amazon cannot even get one level collections to work right. A newer, powerful tablet might be better utilizing large libraries of 4000+ books, but I cannot imagine trying to deal with that many books on an eInk reader.

I do, this is my Amazon non-free purchases. Which I use to determine where I purchased the book. I use my genre and series collections for navigating.

Oh and it would never get to that size if not for Amazon showing everything in the collection whether it is on the device or not.

eschwartz · 03-06-2014, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I do, this is my Amazon non-free purchases. Which I use to determine where I purchased the book. I use my genre and series collections for navigating.

Oh and it would never get to that size if not for Amazon showing everything in the collection whether it is on the device or not.

That would explain it, I was wondering how you managed to get a 999-item collection with spares left over on the PW's itty-bitty memory!

Well, if you break the rules, you can't really expect anything else, but in this case, I'd have to say Amazon needs to get their rear into action. This is certainly the most ... interesting ... example of Cloud Collections messing things up.

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

That would explain it, I was wondering how you managed to get a 999-item collection with spares left over on the PW's itty-bitty memory!

Well, if you break the rules, you can't really expect anything else, but in this case, I'd have to say Amazon needs to get their rear into action. This is certainly the most ... interesting ... example of Cloud Collections messing things up.

I know right!

Good thing I separated my freebies from my paids or it would be close to 2500. Now I have to use Calibre to put them all on there so I can separate the paids into two categories, with the first stopping at 999. Ugh just when I was able to reduce my collections down.

jswinden · 03-06-2014, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I do, this is my Amazon non-free purchases. Which I use to determine where I purchased the book. I use my genre and series collections for navigating.

Oh and it would never get to that size if not for Amazon showing everything in the collection whether it is on the device or not.

Yet that makes more sense. I was thinking 4000 books on the PW2. Probably not possible to get that many on it and still have it function!

I do wish Amazon would add sub-collections to make finding things easier though.

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

Yet that makes more sense. I was thinking 4000 books on the PW2. Probably not possible to get that many on it and still have it function!

I do wish Amazon would add sub-collections to make finding things easier though.

I find this new hiding of collections works almost as well as sub-genres would. I have narrowed my collections down from 16 pages to 5. I am going to narrow it down some more, as I get better acquainted with the upgrade. It is looking like I could probably get it down to 2 or 3 pages. A lot of the collections I have are for organization not navigating.

sirmaru · 03-06-2014, 06:40 PM

Four of my nine Collections were duplicated in the upgrade. Thus, you may not really have 999 Collections. You may have to go through all of them and eliminate the duplicates.

That was the only bug I found in the PW 2012 upgrade.

nynaevelan · 03-06-2014, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by sirmaru

Four of my nine Collections were duplicated in the upgrade. Thus, you may not really have 999 Collections. You may have to go through all of them and eliminate the duplicates.

That was the only bug I found in the PW 2012 upgrade.

Uh I think you missed the point of the original question, I do not have 999 collections, I have one collection that will not accept more than 999 books.

HarryT · 03-07-2014, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nynaevelan

Uh I think you missed the point of the original question, I do not have 999 collections, I have one collection that will not accept more than 999 books.

I'd suggest asking Amazon, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were to be such a limit on the number of items in a collection.

nynaevelan · 03-07-2014, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

I'd suggest asking Amazon, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were to be such a limit on the number of items in a collection.

Thanks that was my next step but I wanted to check to see if it was a quirk of my device.

03-06-2014, 10:30 AM	#1
nynaevelan eBook Junkie Posts: 1,526 Karma: 1464018 Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle Fire 2020, Kindle PW2	PW2 - Collection Items over 999 Hi: I've been tweaking my collections and I just noticed that one of my collections wasn't saving the items that I was adding, then I noticed the number was not going over 999 even though it says it was saving the collection. Of course then when I detail into the collection the new items wasn't showing up. Does anyone have a collection that has more than 999 items in it?? Is this a quirk of my pw or once again Amazon didn't forsee this large number of items being in a collection??

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03-06-2014, 10:34 AM	#2
Glorfindel Force-Aware Elf Posts: 4,762 Karma: 11557898 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Valinor Device: Kindle 4 w/SO	lol I don't even have 500 items on my kindle : ) (I'm soooo helpful aren't I?)

03-06-2014, 11:04 AM	#4
jswinden Nameless Being	Wow 4000! Even if you can read one book a day on average, that is 11 years worth of books. And a collection with 999 items seems like it would be difficult to find anything within it. I wish we could have sub-collections to further divide them, but Amazon cannot even get one level collections to work right. A newer, powerful tablet might be better utilizing large libraries of 4000+ books, but I cannot imagine trying to deal with that many books on an eInk reader.

03-06-2014, 11:04 AM	#5
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I would say that if you have that many books in one collection, you might as well not have collections at all. It would be hard to navigate.

03-06-2014, 11:07 AM	#6
Glorfindel Force-Aware Elf Posts: 4,762 Karma: 11557898 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Valinor Device: Kindle 4 w/SO	yeah it'd be a tad quicker in searches but other than that...

03-06-2014, 06:40 PM	#12
sirmaru Wizard Posts: 2,426 Karma: 6561538 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Kindle PW 2013, HDX 2013, Galaxy S5 2014	Four of my nine Collections were duplicated in the upgrade. Thus, you may not really have 999 Collections. You may have to go through all of them and eliminate the duplicates. That was the only bug I found in the PW 2012 upgrade.

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