Bored with ereaders?

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Apache

I have not had any problems at all with using touch on my Surface. It is very responsive.
Apache

My first tablet was a windows tablet back in 2007. I can't remember what program I used to read. It was kind of klunky, but then again, compared to reading on a Palm pilot, it was pretty nice.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Apache

I have not had any problems at all with using touch on my Surface. It is very responsive.
Apache

Yep, same here. I use my Surface in the desktop mode and navigate with the pen. No problems. (Well, there was a problem last year with a Chrome update, afterwards the touch keyboard started popping up indiscriminately. But only in Chrome, and they've fixed the bug by now).

[meeera]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Last I checked Kobo doesn't support nested collections, either.

e.g.
Fiction -> Children's -> Fantasy
Fiction -> Romance -> Humor
Fiction -> Romance -> Mystery
Non-Fiction -> Biographies
Non-Fiction -> History -> European -> Medieval

Using Calibre to manage your collections, you can achieve the same functional result, without the nesting mechanism. Multiple-tag these books Children's Fantasy & Children's & Fantasy & Fiction, Humourous Romance (etc etc), Romantic Suspense, Biography (fictional biography is not really a thing), Medieval European History.

This also avoids the problem of a book that belongs in multiple of your second-level folders, like Children's Romance or Historical Biography.

[John F]

Originally Posted by meeera

Using Calibre to manage your collections, you can achieve the same functional result, without the nesting mechanism. Multiple-tag these books Children's Fantasy & Children's & Fantasy & Fiction, Humourous Romance (etc etc), Romantic Suspense, Biography (fictional biography is not really a thing), Medieval European History.

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Are you talking about on the Kobo? Are you talking about altering the book title on the Kobo?

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by meeera

Using Calibre to manage your collections, you can achieve the same functional result, without the nesting mechanism. Multiple-tag these books Children's Fantasy & Children's & Fantasy & Fiction, Humourous Romance (etc etc), Romantic Suspense, Biography (fictional biography is not really a thing), Medieval European History.

This also avoids the problem of a book that belongs in multiple of your second-level folders, like Children's Romance or Historical Biography.

I know that's possible. Caveat is that would create too many first level collections to wade through if the goal is storing my entire library on the device. I already do something similar but use e.g. "Romance, Romance-Historical", "Romance, Romance-Modern" for sorting purposes. (Note, I do want support for nested collections, not simply folder structure.)

In terms of storage space, there's already more than enough room for my library even with just 4GB (barring graphic novels). It's library management that's the sticking point. That's why right now, I only store less than a few hundred titles on my ereader - to keep both the number of collections and number of titles in a collection manageable/browsable.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

I know that's possible. Caveat is that would create too many first level collections to wade through if the goal is storing my entire library on the device. I already do something similar but use e.g. "Romance, Romance-Historical", "Romance, Romance-Modern" for sorting purposes. (Note, I do want support for nested collections, not simply folder structure.)

In terms of storage space, there's already more than enough room for my library even with just 4GB (barring graphic novels). It's library management that's the sticking point. That's why right now, I only store less than a few hundred titles on my ereader - to keep both the number of collections and number of titles in a collection manageable/browsable.

That's pretty much the way I approach it. Non fiction is more or less manageable for me since I don't have more than a few hundred in any one category (i.e. History-American, History-Roman, History-WWII, etc...). SF&F is a different story all together. Since my Kobo is mostly used for hiking, I have a number of collections for the books that I normally want for hiking trips (to be read books, LOTR, various series)

[shalym]

I have Calibre Companion installed on my phone, and all of my books are in my Kindle cloud. If I'm away from my computer and looking for my next read, I'll use CC to figure out what I want to read, then download it to my Kindle. (This is one of the reasons why I tend to use my Kindle more often than my Kobo...I would have to keep my entire on the device, and it's much easier to just email my books from Calibre to my Amazon account than it is to connect my device to the computer every time I buy a book)

Shari

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

In terms of storage space, there's already more than enough room for my library even with just 4GB (barring graphic novels). It's library management that's the sticking point. That's why right now, I only store less than a few hundred titles on my ereader - to keep both the number of collections and number of titles in a collection manageable/browsable.

Of course, you could still store all your books on your device anyway. You mkight still find yourself going to Calibre or wherever to find your next read, but you would save the step of having to then add the book to your device.

I read differently than you and usually know what I want. Even with some crazy number of books on my Kobo, if you're looking for a single book it's just as if I had only a hundred.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Of course, you could still store all your books on your device anyway. You might still find yourself going to Calibre or wherever to find your next read, but you would save the step of having to then add the book to your device.

I read differently than you and usually know what I want. Even with some crazy number of books on my Kobo, if you're looking for a single book it's just as if I had only a hundred.

Search is pretty fast on the Kindle as well. Caveat, I read a ton of fanfics (a lot of them in-progress) and remembering titles and authors (usernames) for those is very difficult.

Thing is if I have internet (that includes hotspot on the phone), I already have ready access to my entire library via Calibre PHP server + ereader browser. I can just download books as needed so storing all my books on the ereader is unnecessary. Downloading on-demand is actually preferable so I have the latest updated versions and so new fics are on the top of the list when sorted by recent.

It's when I don't have internet that I need to have good library management directly on the device. My old PRS-350 with hierarchical tags via PRS Plus custom firmware was my favorite library management-wise. Alas, lack of front light ended up being a major deal breaker.