Right now, all of your downloaded eBooks are presented on your Kindle’s home page. They can be sorted in three ways: by most recently accessed, by title, or by author. This works fine if your home page only sports a few pages of books, but many Kindle owners have dozens or even hundreds of books downloaded to their Kindle.

(The current 6″ Kindle reader can hold 1,500 books; the larger Kindle DX can hold 3,500 books.)

Judging from our Kindle user forums, the most requested Kindle feature by far is for “folders” – i.e. some type of filing system to help organize those ever-growing libraries of downloaded eBooks. Kindle owners are taking encouragement about this from today’s post on the Kindle facebook page:

“Kindle Customers, We have heard from many of you that you would like to have a better way to organize your growing Kindle libraries. We are currently working on a solution that will allow you to organize your Kindle libraries. We will be releasing this functionality as an over-the-air software update as soon as it is ready, in the first half of next year. – The Kindle Team“.

Note that Amazon’s facebook author (man, I want that job!) avoids using the word “folders”. I think it’s more likely Amazon will introduce a system where eBooks can be tagged, and thus sifted and sorted into different views based on user-assigned tags.

What do you think? Are folders the answer? Tagging? Some other feature? Discuss it with other Kindle owners.

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