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Thank you! This makes collections and the device itself a whole lot easier to work with |
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07-11-2016, 03:11 PM | #47 |
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Note that things have moved on since the earlier posts and at the moment, it is possible to jailbreak newer devices, such as Voyages, in order to use extensions to manage collections.
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07-13-2016, 06:06 AM | #48 |
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Would collections maintained in this way still be synced into the cloud? I live that feature so would not want to lose this.
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07-13-2016, 03:13 PM | #49 |
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As I understand it, no - while it can be configured to leave existing collections alone, so they should still sync, I believe these would be local to the device.
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07-26-2017, 02:53 PM | #50 |
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Amazon has done a really poor job of implementing collections.
Collections has tremendous potential as the 3rd function of a traditional library card catalog, the SUBJECT search. But in 3 implementations, Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac, and "Manage your content," they stumbled. #1 - The list of collections is out of order. This might be fine for those with only a few collections. But for those of us with MANY collections, looking for a specific collection is difficult, remember the list of collection is out of order, so you can't just go to the middle looking for a collection starting with M. That collection could be ANYPLACE in the list of collections. And the problem gets worse as you add more collections. #2 - When you go to add a book to a collection, that list of collections is also out of order, so finding the collection to assign to the book becomes a PiA. #3 - In "manage your content," there are several problems - The window of collections only lists FIVE collections. This is a very small window to search through, when one has 50, 75, 100+ collections. - It appears that there is a max number of collections. - The list of collections is in "most recent" order, which does me very little good when looking for a specific collection to add the book to. An alternate ALPHA sort is what is needed. - I cannot edit the name of a collection, nor delete a duplicate collection. |
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10-22-2017, 12:30 AM | #52 |
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#1 - Sorting collections > I subsequently figured out how to sort cloud collections by viewing collections. And that is a great help. > But I still have not figured out how to sort the collections in Kindle4PC (where I usually am, and is my master collections list) or Kindle4Mac. #2 - When you go to add a book to a collection, that list of collections is also out of order, so finding the collection to assign to the book becomes a PiA. > Yes, the search works for cloud collections (I do not remember seeing it before). BUT, it only lists 5 collections, where there are more collections with that prefix. Example, only 5 collections are listed for prefix "home" when I have 12 collections that start with "home." I cannot figure out how it selects which of the 12 collections to include in that list of 5 collections. (as of Oct21-2017) Time to report another bug to Amazon. > The search function is not available (that I could find) in Kindle4PC. #3 - In "manage your content," there are several problems - The window of collections only lists FIVE collections. This is a very small window to search through, when one has 50, 75, 100+ collections. > Yes #2 works to solve part of the problem, however it is only a partial solution as the search response is limited to 5 collections (as of oct-21-2017) #4 - Max number of collections, in cloud collections. > This changed, as I confirm that I can now add more collections, where before I was stopped cold. #5 - The list of collections is in "most recent" order, which does me very little good when looking for a specific collection to add the book to. An alternate ALPHA sort is what is needed. > As in #1, searching works for cloud collections, to a point, because the search only displays 5 collections (not the entire list of collections with that prefix) > Searching does not work not for collections in Kindle4PC which does not have that collection search function. #6 - I cannot edit the name of a collection, nor delete a duplicate collection (in cloud collections) > I can edit the name of a new collection (that I create). > But I cannot edit the name of a collection (which was pre-populated by Amazon) in cloud collections. > Amazon must have done some internal house cleaning, because there are no duplicate collections today, where there were many before. Unfortunately, cloud collections and collections in Kindle4PC do not sync, so I am forced to do double work. Currently, my master collection list is on my Kindle4PC, as I started that long before there was cloud collections. Last edited by ac12a; 10-22-2017 at 12:34 AM. |
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I browse a collection when I am looking for a book in a particular subject, such as photography (which is how I make my collections).
I try to limit the number of books in a collection to less than 150. More than that and browsing a collection becomes difficult. So I break larger collections down into sub-collections. This was originally driven by the Kindle2 where I could only see 10 books on a screen. So browsing through a 200 book collection meant paging through 20 screens. I determined that 10 screens was a practical maximum for a collection on the K2. The sub-collections make finding books easier in a large collection of several hundred books. Example - food (as the level 1 collection) - food.breads (as the level 2 collection, or sub-collection) For others like fiction - Fiction (level 1) - Fiction.historical (level2 by type of fiction) - Fiction.fantasy (level2 by type of fiction) - Fiction.A-H (level 2 by title A-H, for those books that don't fit into my sub-collection bucket by subject) Once I started doing sub-collections, I started doing it for smaller collections, to make it easier to organize and find my books. This is especially when I know I am going to add more books into that collection. Most of my books are non-fiction, so subject organization is easy. But fiction is much harder, for me. I am still trying to figure out how to organize them, probably by genre/type of fiction/sci-fi. I have 500+ fiction and 300+ sci-fi books. Why so MANY books? When I can get books for "free" from Amazon, I grab it NOW, to read later. |
10-31-2017, 03:36 PM | #54 |
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The one thing that Amazon could do that would make a big difference to me would be the ability to manage collections on the Kindle via PC - adding/deleting books from the Kindle itself is tedious beyond belief.
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10-31-2017, 03:41 PM | #55 |
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Amazon used to have the collections open but too many people deleted the files and Amazon took away the openness because of this. This was back in the days of the original Kindle and maybe the Kindle 2.
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10-31-2017, 04:16 PM | #56 |
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I agree and keep giving Amazon that feedback. Hope others are too.
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