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Can anyone recommend a good programme for organising books on a kindle? I have a paperwhite which is basic, but great for reading while travelling etc. However it’s such a pain to organise a folder structure on. I’m trying to find a way of doing it which is as simple as a windows drag and drop style structure. Any advice?


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 5:28 pm
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Haven't looked into it but paperwhite seems worse than my old-style keyboard version for this - most recent always appearing at the top etc.  A simple "take me to my last book" would work better, at the top of a sensibly displayed & user-set series of folders


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 5:40 pm
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I use collections. I created a few broad ones: fiction, biography etc.

Then two special ones : read and reading

I can find the stuff I'm on now and when it's done I put in read.

All fits on a page.

I also have a collection called paused for stuff I didn't want to finish but feel too guilty to put on read. I kid myself I'll go back to that. I'm


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 6:37 pm
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I use Calibre. It's a bit "Windows 98" but it does everything you need.


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 7:38 pm
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Thanks all. I did try Calibre briefly and didn’t find it great, probably didn’t try it enough to get the most out of it to be fair. I shall have another look.

So frustrating that the kindle itself can’t be a bit more user friendly. I’d like to organise by author, series, genre etc as I please. Still, the upsides outweigh the down I guess.


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 9:40 pm
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I don't bother - I just type what I want into the search box.  Not sure what the benefit of sorting them all into folders would be.


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 9:48 pm
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Same reason you put all your cook books on the same shelf.


 
Posted : 02/04/2018 10:33 pm

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