Suggestions for collections?

adbosch · 10-23-2011, 05:02 PM

While impatiently awaiting a PRS+ version for T1 with folder browsing (and recent reads, I wish), I am forced to use collections. But can anyone suggest how to best order some 500 novels, classics, modern, english, french, dutch,fiction, non-fiction, allowing things to be easy to find without having to scroll pages with lists of over 30 titles? Thanks.

Pinecone · 10-23-2011, 05:36 PM

I have collections based on Author and by Series. I use collections based on Genre when I just have a few books (1 - 3) by an Author and/or the Author is not well known to me. And I have limited Genres.

I KNOW Asimov is SciFi, so he is not in that Genre collection.

Within an Author, I actually set up my collections based on a series type (using Calibre) so the Author collection is sorted the way I want it sorted. If there are series, typically they are sorted in groups, so each series is in series order. Otherwise, it is in published order.

vxf · 10-23-2011, 06:24 PM

I never really got the point of collections. All I achieve is not being able to find things because I don't know where I put them. So I have four 'collections':

1) Books to read
2) Books read
3) Books abandoned (the crappy stuff I will never pick up again)
4) Books currently reading

To that, I add two folders for 'professional' stuff - mostly journal articles in PDF
1) Papers currently reading
2) Papers archived

But I know it's highly subjective...

SeaBookGuy · 10-23-2011, 06:27 PM

Why do you keep the abandoned books at all? I delete them permanently and move on.

vxf · 10-23-2011, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Why do you keep the abandoned books at all? I delete them permanently and move on.

OCD, probably. Although being unable to delete books with SONY's new software has something to do with it...

Shopaholic · 10-23-2011, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by vxf

OCD, probably. Although being unable to delete books with SONY's new software has something to do with it...

Oh please! That's just a recent development. You're mad and making excuses now and you know it.

OP do what works for you. I have History, Romance, True Crime, Biography, Classics, Horror, Fiction and stuff like that. You have to do what works for you.

Phogg · 10-23-2011, 08:05 PM

I arrange my pulps by series and year.

So The Shadow ~ 1937 is a separate collection from The Shadow ~ 1938.

Bookworm_Girl · 10-23-2011, 08:35 PM

I have broken my fiction and non-fiction into subgenres to create smaller collections, e.g. literature, thrillers, romance, business, politics, memoirs, health, etc. I also keep modern and classics in separate collections. For history I have broken it into different countries and events. I have separate collections for different series to keep track of the proper order. I have separate collections for library books and sample books. I have Read collections too. I also have a To Be Read collection where I put books that I know I won't get to for a long while and thus keep the category collections smaller. On my Kindle I use special characters like } to force alphabetical ordering sequence of my collections.

vxf · 10-23-2011, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shopaholic

Oh please! That's just a recent development. You're mad and making excuses now and you know it.

OP do what works for you. I have History, Romance, True Crime, Biography, Classics, Horror, Fiction and stuff like that. You have to do what works for you.

I don't see your point. Truly, I do have a collection for abandoned books and, truly, the only books in it are the ones I can't delete. I made that collection after switching to the new software. And I didn't even point it out until asked about why I have such a collection...

And, frankly, I don't think not being able to delete books is such a big deal - I have been critical of SONY's software for bugs with annotations and periodicals, but this seems very minor to me.

Truly, I am not upset with SONY - this is the second thread today in which someone 'accuses' me of this. But what am I supposed to do? Come up with some excuse?

"Oh yea, I have that collection because it reminds me of the books not to purchase again, because they suck". Would that be better?

Oh wait. I don't need a collection to remind me of the books I purchased. BECAUSE I CANNOT DELETE THEM!!!

Just kidding... but yea, that's the reason, what can I say...

SeaBookGuy · 10-24-2011, 12:00 AM

Maybe I don't understand as I've never used the reader software; I keep my books at Calibre. Right now, I'm only using a few tags for a couple of hundred books: fiction, memoir, travel and nonfiction (for everything else).
Is it that you can't delete any books, or specifically ones purchased from Sony?

vxf · 10-24-2011, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Maybe I don't understand as I've never used the reader software; I keep my books at Calibre. Right now, I'm only using a few tags for a couple of hundred books: fiction, memoir, travel and nonfiction (for everything else).
Is it that you can't delete any books, or specifically ones purchased from Sony?

The ones purchased by SONY. And you can actually delete them - manually, by going into the directory in which the software stores them - but they will still be in the list of books displayed by the Reader software. The cover still appears, with an arrow (indicating the need to re-download).

As I mentioned, I think this is a minor problem - compared to the faulty support for annotations or the inability to import certain (SONY-store purchased) periodicals. But it is an inconvenience.

sabredog · 10-24-2011, 12:59 AM

My installed Calibre is a one stop storage site for 6 ereaders used by 4 family members so my collections (tags) are thus;

Series
Genre - sub genre
Author

So this could be;

Lost Fleet
Science Fiction - Military
Jack Campbell

My wife enjoys Paranormal Romances

So another tag in Calibre would be Romance - Paranormal, which is converted to a collection on a Sony or her Kindle.

Works well for me.

Analogus · 10-24-2011, 01:43 AM

I use just this collections:

-Want to read
-Reading
-Done with reading
-Lexica

Problem is 'Calibre'. No, of course not the software itself.
When putting books in Calibre I download metadata over the internet. Lots of keywords are added to the book automatically producing lots of collections on the reader. I finally gave up using them extensively and just delete them time over time from the reader. Except above mentioned.

A.

Bookworm_Girl · 10-24-2011, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Maybe I don't understand as I've never used the reader software; I keep my books at Calibre. Right now, I'm only using a few tags for a couple of hundred books: fiction, memoir, travel and nonfiction (for everything else).
Is it that you can't delete any books, or specifically ones purchased from Sony?

It's annoying you can't delete Sony content. It goes back to your previous content about wanting to get rid of books you'll never read. Even if you don't have a hard-copy on your computer, Sony shows you a graphic of the book as available for download. Sony does not let you delete any previous purchases from your account page either. I do not want to see all of my purchases from nearly 5 years in my library! The old software let you choose what books you wanted imported and what you wanted to stay only on your Sony account page on the internet link.

SeaBookGuy · 10-24-2011, 02:04 AM

I think I get it now. Audible does something similar, though not as drastic, with its hard-drive Manager showing a "shadow" listing for anything you ever added, even stuff that's been later deleted off one's computer.

10-23-2011, 05:02 PM	#1
adbosch Addict Posts: 299 Karma: 511516 Join Date: Jun 2004 Device: Kobo Forma; Pocketbook Color 633	Suggestions for collections? While impatiently awaiting a PRS+ version for T1 with folder browsing (and recent reads, I wish), I am forced to use collections. But can anyone suggest how to best order some 500 novels, classics, modern, english, french, dutch,fiction, non-fiction, allowing things to be easy to find without having to scroll pages with lists of over 30 titles? Thanks.

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10-23-2011, 05:36 PM	#2
Pinecone Guru Posts: 902 Karma: 1660722 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Maryland Device: PRS-650, PRS-600, PRS-350	I have collections based on Author and by Series. I use collections based on Genre when I just have a few books (1 - 3) by an Author and/or the Author is not well known to me. And I have limited Genres. I KNOW Asimov is SciFi, so he is not in that Genre collection. Within an Author, I actually set up my collections based on a series type (using Calibre) so the Author collection is sorted the way I want it sorted. If there are series, typically they are sorted in groups, so each series is in series order. Otherwise, it is in published order.

10-23-2011, 06:24 PM	#3
vxf Guru Posts: 944 Karma: 1490348 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Norman, OK Device: Sony PRS 350, 900, 950; Kindles (ALL of them!); Kobo Aura One	I never really got the point of collections. All I achieve is not being able to find things because I don't know where I put them. So I have four 'collections': 1) Books to read 2) Books read 3) Books abandoned (the crappy stuff I will never pick up again) 4) Books currently reading To that, I add two folders for 'professional' stuff - mostly journal articles in PDF 1) Papers currently reading 2) Papers archived But I know it's highly subjective...

10-23-2011, 06:27 PM	#4
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	Why do you keep the abandoned books at all? I delete them permanently and move on.

10-23-2011, 08:05 PM	#7
Phogg PHD in Horribleness Posts: 2,320 Karma: 23599604 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: In the ironbound section, near avenue L Device: Just a whole bunch. I guess I am a collector now.	I arrange my pulps by series and year. So The Shadow ~ 1937 is a separate collection from The Shadow ~ 1938.

10-23-2011, 08:35 PM	#8
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,873 Karma: 36536965 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	I have broken my fiction and non-fiction into subgenres to create smaller collections, e.g. literature, thrillers, romance, business, politics, memoirs, health, etc. I also keep modern and classics in separate collections. For history I have broken it into different countries and events. I have separate collections for different series to keep track of the proper order. I have separate collections for library books and sample books. I have Read collections too. I also have a To Be Read collection where I put books that I know I won't get to for a long while and thus keep the category collections smaller. On my Kindle I use special characters like } to force alphabetical ordering sequence of my collections.

10-24-2011, 12:00 AM	#10
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	Maybe I don't understand as I've never used the reader software; I keep my books at Calibre. Right now, I'm only using a few tags for a couple of hundred books: fiction, memoir, travel and nonfiction (for everything else). Is it that you can't delete any books, or specifically ones purchased from Sony?

10-24-2011, 12:59 AM	#12
sabredog Geographically Restricted Posts: 2,630 Karma: 14933353 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Device: Sony PRS-T3, Kindle Voyage, iPad Air2, Nexus7v2	My installed Calibre is a one stop storage site for 6 ereaders used by 4 family members so my collections (tags) are thus; Series Genre - sub genre Author So this could be; Lost Fleet Science Fiction - Military Jack Campbell My wife enjoys Paranormal Romances So another tag in Calibre would be Romance - Paranormal, which is converted to a collection on a Sony or her Kindle. Works well for me.

10-24-2011, 01:43 AM	#13
Analogus Fanatic Posts: 568 Karma: 2170348 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: 2x Sony PRS-350; PRS-300 (†), Paperwhite (†), Voyage	I use just this collections: -Want to read -Reading -Done with reading -Lexica Problem is 'Calibre'. No, of course not the software itself. When putting books in Calibre I download metadata over the internet. Lots of keywords are added to the book automatically producing lots of collections on the reader. I finally gave up using them extensively and just delete them time over time from the reader. Except above mentioned. A.

10-24-2011, 02:04 AM	#15
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	I think I get it now. Audible does something similar, though not as drastic, with its hard-drive Manager showing a "shadow" listing for anything you ever added, even stuff that's been later deleted off one's computer.