Comments on: Kindle Folders Workaround

By: Kindle 2 review | Hello, IT.

Kindle 2 review | Hello, IT. — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:37 +0000

[...] Lo segundo ha sido buscar la forma de crear directorios en el Kindle, puesto que tenía varios archivos pensados para subir, pero quería mostrarlos de forma ordenada en mi nuevo gadget. No habido suerte, ya que el Kindle no soporta de forma nativa la creación de carpetas para ordenar los ficheros, incluso sabiendo que el Kindle 2 puede almacenar hasta 1500 documentos. Sin embargo hay algunas alternativas que se proponen en la red como por ejemplo usar tags para clasificar los documentos. [...]

By: John N. Patterson

John N. Patterson — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:15:25 +0000

I would suggest that your Kindle e reader not lose sight of what its main function is, which is to be an e-book reader. Improvements that I would like to see is folders, better contrast, and better reading in sunlight. I don’t feel the necessity to have PDF files on it or a color screen. A touch screen pad would be great. I don’t feel that the Kindle should play music, video, etc. Improve the Kindle e reader keeping in mind it’s original purpose which is to read digital books! Thank you.

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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:29:44 +0000

[...] Kindle Folders are being worked on and will arrive in 2010. Here’s a rough kindle folders workaround. [...]

By: JC

JC — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:56:46 +0000

I’ve used a product call Calibre. It works great as an organizer. I use the Author field in the the ebook as my “catalog” field, e.g. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reference.

It’s still not the best solution but it works for me. I sure wish Amazon would work on a good tag system.

By: switch11

switch11 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:57:09 +0000

The tags are the best way to go.

By: svs

svs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:16:57 +0000

Thanks, switch11 – I was trying the html approach.

HTML files renamed .txt in the documents folder could not be read.

HTML files were readable using the experimental browser via the address listed above; however, links to PDFs gave error messages ~ “cannot download this file format”.

I haven’t tried tags. for the meantime, i’m renaming everything with a prefix (“foldername – filename” instead of “foldername/filename”) to see if this can at least get the sorting order alright.

thanks for your help!

By: switch11

switch11 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:33:17 +0000

svs, the tags approach should work.

could you please note what you’re doing.
are you adding unique tags and then searching on those?

By: svs

svs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:45:55 +0000

correction: the experimental web browser approach *does* work, however, linking to PDF files results in an error message: “these types of files are not supported in the browser”

By: svs

svs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:32:16 +0000

I’m failing to get this to work — both the text trick and the experimental web browser result in “file cannot be opened.” Has anyone else had this problem? Alternately, can anyone confirm this works on the Kindle DX? I’m terribly disappointed in the Kindle; the lack of any PDF management abilities has made this a terrible waste of my grant money.

By: Eckaterin

Eckaterin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:26:35 +0000

Brilliant! Thank you for posting this! I can’t for the life of me figure out why Amazon won’t do this VERY SIMPLE THING for their customers (who are shelling out 300+bucks!), nor how they think you’ll sort through your 1000 books without a folder tree…..but this is an excellent interim solution! Going to Tag up my Kindle books RIGHT NOW!