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April 15, 2009 07:21 PM

How do you organize your hheld e-books after reading? I'm finding readers and onlines very weak at libraries larger than a few dozen.

I can organize things fine on laptop, but the handheld readers seem constantly to forget that a library might be bigger than half a dozen. My current library is a bit over 200 volumes; was working fine in my favorite Palm-based reader, but can't find an iPhone/iPod reader that can organize that usefully.
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April 15, 2009 07:42 PM | view on twitter
I generally put my e-books in subdirectories in an "E-books" folder on my hard drive. I don't really do much "organizing" of them beyond that, though I am starting to consider going through and doing a massive re-organization. I use BookShelf to serve e-books to my iPod Touch, and it stores books on the device in the same folders used on the hard drive, so sometimes it can be a little annoying to have to traverse three folders on my device in order to open a book.
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http://iphonebookshelf.com



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April 15, 2009 07:53 PM
I can't find anything at VitalSource on relating BookShelf to the iPod. Can you link that for me? It's the handheld readers that seem to lack any organizing ability, laptop/desktop platforms are fine.

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April 15, 2009 07:53 PM
Updated my source list.

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April 15, 2009 10:48 PM
Ah, yes, that link helps.

Good in many ways, but only supports open formats (i.e., not Amazon Kindle), which will limit the available documents. So I'm still interested in some handheld reader that provides some way of organizing the documents ... and supports the Kindle format/library/protocol as well as free formats.

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April 15, 2009 10:51 PM
There is a Kindle reader for the iPhone/iPod Touch, you know. (Not all that great of one so far, but perhaps they're working on improving it.)

You're not going to find anything that supports the Kindle format apart from the Kindle and whatever platforms it releases a Kindle app for. And anything that supports the Kindle format will NOT support the original encrypted Mobipocket format, and vice versa.

http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/04/drmd-mobipocket-is-the-e-text-on-the-wall/

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April 15, 2009 11:23 PM
Yeah, have iPhone Kindle, but it doesn't organize, either. So I guess I need *two* "organizing handheld readers."

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April 15, 2009 11:36 PM
You seem to be talking about how one organizes books *on the reader*. I was talking about how I organized them "after reading" on my hard drive. After all, after I've read them, I hardly need them *on* my reader anymore.

The fact is that every reader program on the iPhone has its own method of organizing its books within the reader, since every one of them has to sync its books into its own private space. Bookshelf organizes them by the folders on your hard drive they're found in. Stanza and eReader organize them by title or author. And so forth.

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