That’s right, the Amazon site knows collections are a thing, knows you have them.Īwesome, except there’s no “collection view” on the site, so you can’t actually take a look at your ‘sci-fi’ collection, see what’s in it. NOPE, you can see them all listed, download them to your computer (handy for using Calibre to manage your library), re-deliver to your Kindle and just recently assign books to collections. You might think you could go there to sort your vast library of books purchased from Amazon.
Collections aren’t represented in Goodreads at all, nor are your Goodreads shelves represented on the Kindle.Īs Kindle owners know, there’s the “manage your devices and content” section within Amazon. Good reads has ‘shelves’ and you can add books to the ‘currently-reading’, and ‘read’ via your Kindle, but that’s it. One might think the acquisition of good reads would make managing your library somewhat easier, or even possible. I stopped looking a long time ago, so maybe it was only missing for a point release or two, but it’s there now, which is awesome!) ( UPATE: As Mike points out in the comments, this feature is actually present. A subsequent firmware update did away with that, forever. You created collections, and there was a view that consisted only of collections and unassigned books, so once you saw only your collections, you were organized. Long long ago, there was a time that the Kindle firmware made managing your books pretty easy. NOPE.Įven collections I’ve created on my device aren’t visible in the Kindle desktop app. You might think you could manage your library on a desktop app, that makes sense, there’s screen real estate, a rich UI, etc. I think they thought, “They’ll just have a virtual pile on their device and dig around for their next book.” Assuming they even thought about it.
As a customer, it seems they don’t care how we manage our library. At the same time, making it super easy to buy a book, start reading it almost instantly, and making it nearly impossible to manage your library either on the Kindle or online.Īmazon has never since the launch of the Kindle had what might even be considered a strategy. It sucks.Īmazon from the start with the Kindle has been a weird duality. I love my Kindle, it’s packed full of books, hundreds of them.
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