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Can Amazon save one's collections along with other data such as where you are in a book?
I ask because my original K3 was stolen and I had to download my books again but the collections had disappeared. My new K3 also had one of the defective covers and after painstakingly putting everything back into collections I was dismayed to find that my Kindle "forgot" the collections (as well as other things) when it went to sleep. I now have an OK cover (thanks to Amazon CS) but I wouldn't want more of the same for any reason that might arise in the future. |
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I also assume if your battery died and was replaced you would have problems restoring collections?
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Collection info is stored in the collections.json file. Sorry, at the moment I cannot tell you which folder it is in but maybe the System folder (which might be hidden depending on how you have your Explorer show file details). Although, I'm not sure how copying/replacing it would work if you did not also recreate you exact folder structure on the kindle if you did not simple place all of your books in the Document folder.
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I have my kindle collections setup like this:
_Currently Reading _Read Later [ Current Series ] { Category 1 } { Category 2 } +Series 1 +Series 2 And then organized alphabetically. I've been using this organize about 200 books and so far I'm very happy with it. ![]() |
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xxxxx|> 201 Star Wars i.e. move the spaces before your special characters. I haven't checked for this, but the Kindle ignores spaces that are at the very beginning of a title or collection name. You put them after the special characters, thus I don't think it ignores the spaces (which gives the results you are getting). As for the ideas in the original post... I like them. I will probably try them out myself. I just hate that we have to go to these lengths to work around the nuances of the Kindle's fw/os. Ideally, we should be able to toggle whether we want books that are in Kindles to be listed in the main menu (i.e. like the Alphabetical Listings) or not (i.e. like the by-collections view). |
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Like HarryT suggested, the underscore at the beginning worked for me in getting my collections alphabetical at the main screen with the BY TITLE sorting option. And they are still on the front page (although in a MOST RECENT sorting) when I choose BY COLLECTION. Good enough for me!
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xxx|>101 Author 1 xxx|>102 Author 2 xxx|>201 Star Wars xxx|>202 Star Trek |>100 Authors |>200 Sci Fi I will play around with it some more. |
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In the meantime, is there any way that as a group we can "mass" suggest that Amazon adjust elements like this in the firmware? I've made the suggestion back at the beginning, but I'm not sure if there is a way to emphasize the need for cleaning up this collection / sorting / etc. setup. |
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This is very helpful! K for you!
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So, there isn't a fix for me - I want to sort my collections alphabetically, but not have the titles within the collections show up. Mine will only sort by most recent opened, no matter what I do. Is that correct? I have a page and a half of collections, but 40 pages of books. I prefer just to have the page and a half come up.
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This is why you see the discussion on using special characters at the beginning of a collection name: Doing that will put the collections at the front when you sort alphabetically. The titles won't disappear, but they'll come after the collections rather than itnerspersed with the collections. You could then just use page 1 and 2 of your listings and skip the remaining pages of titles. You could even add and utilize blank collections to push title off until a page after the collections if that looks better to you. |
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