Folders on the way in 2010?

[ak rain]

 oh how can they make all happy? I like tagging but folders would work too.
sylvia

[Susan in VA]

Pretty much anything would be better than the "heap"... 

I wonder whether whatever the system ends up being will be only for books purchased through Amazon?  If they come pre-tagged from now on, that could easily be the case.  They could even use WN to update your existing ones to include tags.

And whether it's folders or tags, I hope there'll be a way to sort/tag books on the computer rather than on the Kindle itself.  The thought of in some way processing hundreds of books on that little keyboard...  ugh.

[Annalog]

I'm sooooo happy with this news! I first saw it on FB also. I sure hope its folders and not some kind of tagging system. As a computer user, I've always sorted using folders and I've never gotten the hand of using tagging. I would certainly be open to having something like iTunes playlists...even that would be a huge improvement. Thanks to Amazon for listening to us!!

I think of playlists as tagging with a sequence added. In other words, every item in the playlist is tagged with the name of the playlist and each item in the playlist knows what number (or order) it is in the list. A sequence would be great for identifying series. 

I prefer organizational methods that will allow each item to belong to more than one type of group (read status, fiction/nonfiction/reference, genres, subject categories) and sometimes more than one item in a group. Depending on what organizational options eventually become available on the Kindle, I might have trouble deciding. I suspect that we will have a limited number of ways we can organize the items so I am hoping that at least I will be able to identify unread, fiction/nonfiction/reference, and subject category.

I'm happy for all of you who want the folders, if that's what they will be doing.  I would probably use them (for TBRS, fiction, nonfiction, history, etc.), but then once in the folder, those books will be out of sight, out of mind.  But once again, I'm happy for you.

Other than folders (as in a directory structure), most electronic organizational methods I have used allow showing either all items or a subset of items, even when an item can only be identified as belonging to a single category, so an organizational feature does not necessarily mean that an item disappears from the list just because it has been categorized. I would hope that the Kindle Team would add an organizational method that still allows showing all items. I would think they would as it would be consistent with the current choice of displaying Personal Docs, Subscriptions, Books, and All My Items.

[ak rain]

I am a bit worried. I never was able to get last upgrade. hope they do the next one on computer as not able to get via WN
sylvia

[4Katie]

If it's a tagging system I'd actually be happier than I would with folders.  Tags mean every book can be classified and sorted several different ways (so I don't have to choose one filing system).  This is great news!

I agree. I'd be happy just to be able to label the order of books in a series.

[Meemo]

But wait, when they do other updates via Whispernet, don't they do those for the KK as well?  Maybe not the same ones, but surely they're still making ongoing improvements (or at least changes) to the KK?

Have there been any updates for the K2?  I don't remember reading about anything significant - but I don't always remember what I ate for lunch either, so that doesn't mean much....

[911jason]

Just took a survey posted here -->http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,16110.0.html

...and look at this image that was part of that survey!!!

[ak rain]

Is that what someone wants or is that the idea being put forward?
sylvia

[marianneg]

Are these people affiliated with Amazon at all?

[Ann in Arlington]

I think it's a "what if" survey. . . . . .definitely NOT what any DX page looks like currently, even with the latest update.

[chiffchaff]

seems odd that the OP for the survey didn't say who was behind it, and that the survey is not mentioned on Amazon's Kindle page or on the Amazon Kindle facebook page.  I'm guessing it's not affiliated with Amazon at all.

[intinst]

That was my guess, but I took the survey anyway. May be it's Nook design team fishing.

[chiffchaff]

I just looked at the survey poster's profile and s/he is a student doing research.  There's another survey called Kindle and Studying from the same person started in early November.  So yeah, they're all "what if" scenarios and not connected with Kindle developers.  Oh well, probably still worth taking the survey!

[911jason]

Guess I should have done that too ChiffChaff... I was kind of hoping this was an Amazon-commissioned focus group type thing.

[geoffthomas]

I am afraid that I am suspicious of a brand-new registered KB member that posts a survey asking for info.
When one does this one should identify oneself and provide background.
We had a member that was writing a paper and asked for info to use in it.
But the intentions and expected use were explained in detail up-front.

I don't see that here.


Just sayin......

[chiffchaff]

Guess I should have done that too ChiffChaff... I was kind of hoping this was an Amazon-commissioned focus group type thing.

me too!  the screen shots looked interesting.  Too bad they're not a real proposal.

[Jesslyn]

I have been pondering the type of organization that Amazon says is coming and the more I think about it, the less I think they'll be giving us folders.  If any of you listened and recall it, Len Edgerly (The Kindle Chronicles) interviewed one of the Kindle mucky-mucks at Amazon and he stated (paraphrasing) that the reason they weren't offered at that time was because they had to make sure that everything on the Kindle could be easily understood and done by the 'non-techies'. also that everything should/could be able to be accomplished without connecting to a pc and ideally by not having to read thru a manual. 
So I really think that we'll be getting some sort of expansion of what we already have; maybe a filter for Samples, perhaps?  At best I'm hoping for a couple of user-specified filters to add to the Title/Author/Personal Docs settings, at worst I'm expecting a couple of default folders (set by Amazon) and the ability to 'move' books into them.  Something like Samples, Currently Reading, To Read, etc.