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e-readers are amazing!
Ikrik:
So I got my kindle and uploaded all my books onto it after marveling over the beauty of the thing for a few hours. It's totally the sexiest piece of technology I own. I started reading quite quickly, figuring I'd sort out my insane number of books on it later.
The next day I decided to organize all my books by author and I came to an insanely frustrating realization. The Kindle has one of the worst UI in the entire world. The only way to sort your books in any manageable order is to create collections, none of which can be done on the computer (which would be so much faster) but have to be made by manually typing in everything on the kindle. After I created my collections folder in reverse alphabetical order so that all my collections would be in normal alphabetical order, I find out that you cannot keep them that way. Any time you access a collection, it automatically puts it at the top of the list. I have become incredibly anal about having my things in alphabetical order and this just grates on my nerves. Why isn't there a default option to have collections created for you by author or by genre or whatever? Why couldn't they just group everything by author and give you the option of tagging things by genre?
I found out there is a way to keep them in alphabetical order by putting an underscore in front of every title and sorting your collections by title. I am going to do this but it's so.....primitive and clumsy.
Ikrik:
Yes, but I have over 400 books on it right now and to have condensed by author would take it from over 40 pages to flip through, to about 17. Doing the whole "sort by:" keeps it at over 40 pages. There just isn't an elegant solution for condensing your library by authors and keeping it alphabetical. I'm also angry because I spent probably around 5 hours yesterday doing all this.
IrrationalPie:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 05 Feb 2011, 13:26 ---Yes, but I have over 400 books on it right now and to have condensed by author would take it from over 40 pages to flip through, to about 17. Doing the whole "sort by:" keeps it at over 40 pages. There just isn't an elegant solution for condensing your library by authors and keeping it alphabetical. I'm also angry because I spent probably around 5 hours yesterday doing all this.
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I found that extremely annoying, too.
My workaround is just putting the current books / series I plan on reading next on the Kindle and keep the books organized the way I want them on my computer.
jhocking:
Because then you can't browse through your collection.
Half the time when I pick a book from my bookshelf I just happened to notice it while glancing over at my books.
Ikrik:
But maybe I'm not looking for something specific. Maybe I'm just really, really anal about having my things in alphabetical order. Maybe I want to see my list go Adams->Vonnegut all in the right order because that kind of organization makes me happy. Maybe I hate the idea of having William Gibson at the top of my collection just because I'm currently reading one of his books.
And if I am looking for something specific I am more likely to look for the author first. I should use the search option but I am more likely to simply look through my pages of authors to find the one I'm looking for. I should use search but I really don't like the fact that I should rely on this instead of neatly categorized options.
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