Organising stuff on your Kindle

[emalvick]

Originally Posted by vaniaspeedy

I feel like the issue of the lack of categories is very damaging to the kindle. I've decided to start an email campaign to the Kindle Tech Support in order to make this issue heard. Send an email to them explaining what you want and why it's good for amazon (happy customers, better than the Nook, etc). If enough people do this, they will respond.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/conta...e_id=200212360

What are you referring to as a lack of categories? This thread was more about the potential for subcollections and organization, but the fact that we do have collections is essentially categorization.

Rather than calling "collections" categories, it gives you the option of making collections for whatever you want (categories, prioritized reading, publication dates, authors, etc.)

[thayerwilliams]

Call us crazy, but my wife and I prefer to keep things simple. We have, at any given time, about 5-8 ebooks stored on our Kindles. We have a collection called 'Books', which holds all of these except for the one book we're actively reading; the actively read book is omitted from any collection so that it appears on the home screen for easy access, along with any daily news subscriptions.

We also have separate collections for apps, music, audiobooks and finally a collection titled 'Reference' which holds the dictionaries, Project Gutenberg magic catalogue, Kindle manual and advanced shortcuts guide.

This 'system' allows us to view everything on a single home screen page, while still providing us with a range of reading material on the off-chance that we don't feel like reading our regular novel(s).

Ebooks which have been read, or remain to be read, are stored on the PC and backed up regularly with other household files. It may just be me, but I can't imagine why anyone would wish to keep two or three thousands ebooks on their device at all times.

[crich70]

|> 000 Currently Reading
|> 010 Read
|> 020 Samples
|> 100 Fiction
|> 110 Sci-Fi
|> 120 Historical Fiction
|> 200 Non-Fiction
|> 300 Cookery

This kinda reminds me of our old friend the Dewey Decimal system. Looks good too. I'd have never thought of that.
One addition I'd suggest would be:
|> 005 Read Next
so you could have either just one or several books to choose from to read before others as far as priority goes.

[madamknitsalot]

Thanks for the good tips. I had already made two collections - unread and finished, but didn't think about one for currently reading. Then I added another one: didn't like much This is mostly for the free books I get from bookbub that I ended up not wanting to finish. Bookbub doesn't give quite enough details or samples of the books, but hey, the price is right.

Thanks for the tips and ideas.