Dissatisfied Kindle user, looking for a reader I can organise books better on

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by John F

*Full disclosure, I'm not overly familiar with Kindles.

You are not the only one in this thread!

[Namekuseijin]

categories? organization? I find that Collections are enough to me for that. Couple that with Search - which scans input for author name, book title or collection - and I'm never at a loss.

[JSWolf]

Kindles (unless jailbroken) require manual collection management. Kobos can have the collections managed with Calibre.

[Namekuseijin]

really? And does Calibre manage whatever you like without any manual input by yourself? :lol:

Seriously, I have a laptop somewhere in my closet and I don't remember when was the last time I used it. I'm truly a mobilereader :lol:

[PeterT]

In my case I use the Calibre series column to automatically create a collection per series.

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[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

really? And does Calibre manage whatever you like without any manual input by yourself? :lol:

Seriously, I have a laptop somewhere in my closet and I don't remember when was the last time I used it. I'm truly a mobilereader :lol:

If a book is correctly meta-data'd: yes.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Kindles (unless jailbroken) require manual collection management. Kobos can have the collections managed with Calibre.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3514946

This says a Kindle has to be jailbroken.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3514946

This says a Kindle has to be jailbroken.

No. It does not say that. It says for Library Collections to be used then the PW2 must be jailbroken.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

No. It does not say that. It says for Library Collections to be used then the PW2 must be jailbroken.

That's what he was talking about.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by issybird

That's what he was talking about.

Exactly. I was saying that Kindles need to be jailbroken to be able to use Calibre to manage collections.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Exactly. I was saying that Kindles need to be jailbroken to be able to use Calibre to manage collections.

Thank you for specifying as I misinterpreted your post.
Sorry.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Thank you for specifying as I misinterpreted your post.
Sorry.

No problem. Glad we are now on the same page.

Originally Kindles could have the collections manages by Libprs (Calibre before is was called Calibre) bu Amazon for some reason (bad idea IMHO) removed the functionality.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

No problem. Glad we are now on the same page.

Originally Kindles could have the collections manages by Libprs (Calibre before is was called Calibre) bu Amazon for some reason (bad idea IMHO) removed the functionality.

The "some reason" was the fact that the data file which stored the collections data was in the user-accessible partition. People would frequently accidentally delete it, thus losing all their collections. To prevent this happening, collections were moved into the internal system partition which isn't visible via the USB connection.

I.e. an entirely sensible change.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The "some reason" was the fact that the data file which stored the collections data was in the user-accessible partition. People would frequently accidentally delete it, thus losing all their collections. To prevent this happening, collections were moved into the internal system partition which isn't visible via the USB connection.

I.e. an entirely sensible change.

So, chosing between two evils then. Accidentally remove all your collection vs not being able to manage collections at all outside the reader.

I personally would have prefered to keep the first. But then, there's a reason I don't own a Kindle...

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

So, chosing between two evils then. Accidentally remove all your collection vs not being able to manage collections at all outside the reader.

I imagine that Amazon would have received quite a few complaints from people who'd spent a long time setting up their collections, only to then delete them and be somewhat annoyed by that. They're under no obligation at all to cater to third-party collection-management tools.

You can manage collections outside the reader - you can do so from "Kindle for PC", for example. You just can't do so from tools like Calibre.