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e-readers are amazing!
jhocking:
I don't have a Kindle (yet) so I'm just interpreting what it seems like he said, but being able to create groupings that persist between sessions seems like a pretty standard organizational feature. Like in iTunes I can create various playlists to group my music however I want: playlists for parties, playlists for exercise, playlists for mellow background, whatever. I organize my bookshelves by grouping books according to general subjects (humor books, pop psychology books, books about programming, books about 3D animation, etc.) Would I be able to make groupings like that on the Kindle?
Toba:
Huh, none of that bothers me. I have a bunch of books on mine and I mostly just add a new book to a few collections (I treat them like tags on the internet, like on blogs and shit) when I get it onto the kindle. Of course, I only have around 30 books on mine right now. I don't see the need to have every book I could possibly want to read on there.
I'm fine with having a bunch of things I've been meaning to read on hand.
Ikrik:
Ah, but to me this doesn't seem trivial or even convoluted at all. I have all my DVD's arranged by title, all my books are alphabetical by author, and it would give me an incredible sense of calm if I was able to do this on this device. The fact that I cannot arrange it in the specific way that I want is my only complaint about this wonderful device.
I'm feeling better about this now, I spent around 4 hours reading today and I really, really love the percentage I have made it through the book. I'm reading The Stand by King and I'm 10% through it. Does anyone know how they sort out locations? I try to ignore them because The Stand has 22034 locations, a number which terrifies me.
celticgeek:
When my daughter was in library school, she went to parties at the apartment of a guy who arranged his books alphabetically by publisher. He claims he did this just to mess with student librarians.
Barmymoo:
I never bother with alphabetical organisation but I'm glad to hear that you can create collections, because I do that with physical books too (I've been having to restrain myself from reorganising my employers' bookshelves according to my own opinions of their books). One more point in the Kindle's favour!
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