Touch Possible to organize in folders?

mb2u · 01-09-2014, 12:59 AM

The Touch takes a microSD card. Great. Now I can put hundreds or thousands of books in it for a great reference source when I'm away from the computer. But how does one find something? This screen shows me a wopping 5 titles at a time. I can sort by Author, Title, File Size or File Type but that is useless when you've got thousands of files to sort through. We need folders and sub folders and a screen that shows a lot more than a ridiculous 5 items at a time. What in the world were they thinking? Are they trying to incapacitate us? Its pretty much the same with Kindle devices. They double space wasting huge amounts of vertical space. With a small font (if the main screen was intelligently adjustable) I could see about 20-40 titles at a time if the designers had a brain. 5 titles at a time? Makes no sense at all. What's the point of putting a memory slot in it if you can't find more than a few books at a time? Let's do some math:
40 lines per page x 40 (2nd screen) = 1600 books in just 2 screens.
40 x 40 x 40 (3 screens) gives us access to 64,000 books.

Right now we have no folders. Just a stupid list of crap taking up an inordinate amount of space.

PeterT · 01-09-2014, 01:37 AM

You have the ability to make collections; many of us automate that process via calibre. Sure, collections can not be nested, but it's better than nothing.

Others make use of alternate reading software (KOREADER I think) that lets you browse the file system.

Ken Maltby · 01-09-2014, 02:02 AM

Both the Koreader port and the CoolReader port use a simple "File Manager"/file browser approach instead of the database locked book manager that Kobo uses.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=226456

Luck;
Ken

DNSB · 01-09-2014, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mb2u

The Touch takes a microSD card. Great. Now I can put hundreds or thousands of books in it for a great reference source when I'm away from the computer. But how does one find something? This screen shows me a wopping 5 titles at a time. I can sort by Author, Title, File Size or File Type but that is useless when you've got thousands of files to sort through. We need folders and sub folders and a screen that shows a lot more than a ridiculous 5 items at a time. What in the world were they thinking? Are they trying to incapacitate us? Its pretty much the same with Kindle devices. They double space wasting huge amounts of vertical space. With a small font (if the main screen was intelligently adjustable) I could see about 20-40 titles at a time if the designers had a brain. 5 titles at a time? Makes no sense at all. What's the point of putting a memory slot in it if you can't find more than a few books at a time? Let's do some math:
40 lines per page x 40 (2nd screen) = 1600 books in just 2 screens.
40 x 40 x 40 (3 screens) gives us access to 64,000 books.

Right now we have no folders. Just a stupid list of crap taking up an inordinate amount of space.

Perhaps you should introduce yourself to the search capability? Start typing in the search field and watch the results pop up. Author, title, series, etc. can be searched on. If I want to find one of the IBM redbooks on a Tivoli product, I type ti, tap on Tivoli. For fiction, enter we, tap on David Weber.

I'm not sure how you jumped from one screen showing 40 titles to 2 screen showing 1600 titles. 40 lines/titles per screen and two screens would allow you to view 80 titles not 1600. A third screen would up that to 120 titles. So for a collection of 2000 books, you are going to be scrolling through 50 pages. Using folders may help but quite a few of those folders are not going to have more than 4-5 books in them. A quick check using Calibre says I have 314 authors with 2047 books and 3.7 books per author.

Regards,
David

PeterT · 01-09-2014, 02:14 PM

Noooooo you mentioned Tivoli... In a previous life I worked extensively with many of those products...

DNSB · 01-10-2014, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

Noooooo you mentioned Tivoli... In a previous life I worked extensively with many of those products...

We've only got one Tivoli product left (Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment) aka that program from Hades. A product we swear at more often than we swear by it.

Regards,
David

01-09-2014, 12:59 AM	#1
mb2u Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 6052 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kobo Touch and Mini	Possible to organize in folders? The Touch takes a microSD card. Great. Now I can put hundreds or thousands of books in it for a great reference source when I'm away from the computer. But how does one find something? This screen shows me a wopping 5 titles at a time. I can sort by Author, Title, File Size or File Type but that is useless when you've got thousands of files to sort through. We need folders and sub folders and a screen that shows a lot more than a ridiculous 5 items at a time. What in the world were they thinking? Are they trying to incapacitate us? Its pretty much the same with Kindle devices. They double space wasting huge amounts of vertical space. With a small font (if the main screen was intelligently adjustable) I could see about 20-40 titles at a time if the designers had a brain. 5 titles at a time? Makes no sense at all. What's the point of putting a memory slot in it if you can't find more than a few books at a time? Let's do some math: 40 lines per page x 40 (2nd screen) = 1600 books in just 2 screens. 40 x 40 x 40 (3 screens) gives us access to 64,000 books. Right now we have no folders. Just a stupid list of crap taking up an inordinate amount of space.

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01-09-2014, 01:37 AM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,746 Karma: 75000002 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	You have the ability to make collections; many of us automate that process via calibre. Sure, collections can not be nested, but it's better than nothing. Others make use of alternate reading software (KOREADER I think) that lets you browse the file system.

01-09-2014, 02:02 AM	#3
Ken Maltby Wizard Posts: 4,465 Karma: 6900052 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Heart of Texas Device: Boox Note2, AuraHD, PDA,	Both the Koreader port and the CoolReader port use a simple "File Manager"/file browser approach instead of the database locked book manager that Kobo uses. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=226456 Luck; Ken

01-09-2014, 02:14 PM	#5
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,746 Karma: 75000002 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Noooooo you mentioned Tivoli... In a previous life I worked extensively with many of those products...

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