All this organizing

[Linjeakel]

When I put a book in a collection is it really necessary to keep it on the home pages too?  That appears to be the case but I'm hoping I've missed something that someone else hasn't.   

The only way to have just collections and no individual books is to sort your home screen by 'collection' - check the top right of your screen. This will put your collections in most recently accessed order and only books not already assigned to at least one collection will apear below them. All the other sort options leave the individual books in with the collections.

[LibbyD]

The only way to have just collections and no individual books is to sort your home screen by 'collection' - check the top right of your screen. This will put your collections in most recently accessed order and only books not already assigned to at least one collection will apear below them. All the other sort options leave the individual books in with the collections.

I should have been more specific.  I would like to put a book in a collection and then delete it from the home page.  To put it another way, I want that book in only one place -- in a collection.  I don't want to hide it by sorting.  I want it gone.

As I said, it seems that isn't an option and I wanted to ask if that is correct or not.

[Linjeakel]

I should have been more specific.  I would like to put a book in a collection and then delete it from the home page.  To put it another way, I want that book in only one place -- in a collection.  I don't want to hide it by sorting.  I want it gone.

As I said, it seems that isn't an option and I wanted to ask if that is correct or not.

If you sort your home screen by collection - it will only be in one place - in the collection and not on the homescreen.

[LibbyD]

If you sort your home screen by collection - it will only be in one place - in the collection and not on the homescreen.

Two nations divided by a common language. 

My point is that I don't want 50 pages of individual books following my two pages of collections.  I want the books to be in a collection.  Period.  That's the only place I want them to be.  Sorting by collections to hide them is not the same as getting rid of them.  I want to be rid of them. 

[Linjeakel]

Two nations divided by a common language. 

My point is that I don't want 50 pages of individual books following my two pages of collections.  I want the books to be in a collection.  Period.  That's the only place I want them to be.  Sorting by collections to hide them is not the same as getting rid of them.  I want to be rid of them. 

Yes, we do seem to be going around in circles, don't we! My point is that there is only one file on your Kindle. There are not two copies of your book, one in the collection and one out of it. So you can't delete the one and leave the other. Sorting by collection does not hide your book, it simply stops the Kindle from displaying another link to your book outside the collection.

LOL - shall we agree to disagree on this one!

[LibbyD]

Yes, we do seem to be going around in circles, don't we! My point is that there is only one file on your Kindle. There are not two copies of your book, one in the collection and one out of it. So you can't delete the one and leave the other. Sorting by collection does not hide your book, it simply stops the Kindle from displaying another link to your book outside the collection.

LOL - shall we agree to disagree on this one!

There's nothing to disagree about.  I didn't know there was only one copy.  It certainly seemed as if there was more than one since I was seeing the same books in more than one place, but after pondering that riddle for a while I now understand how it works.  Thank heaven for you and Luvmy4brats!

     

[bonzi]

I should have been more specific.  I would like to put a book in a collection and then delete it from the home page.  To put it another way, I want that book in only one place -- in a collection.  I don't want to hide it by sorting.  I want it gone.

As I said, it seems that isn't an option and I wanted to ask if that is correct or not.

Collections are tags, not folders. You don't "put" a book into a collection, but assign collection to a book.

[mlewis78]

I agree that if a book is in a collection, it's not going to show when you have your home page sorted by collections.  Any books still showing after the collections isn't in a collection.

Magazines, on the other hand . . . well don't get me started on periodicals.

[Patricia]

I am loving making the collections!  Now I'm looking at them trying to decide if I like the format I put them in (Last Name, First Name) or if I want to switch them.   

How do you get them to go in order of last name, first name??

[bonzi]

Magazines, on the other hand . . . well don't get me started on periodicals.

I agree.

[Luvmy4brats]

How do you get them to go in order of last name, first name??

Calibre

[Patricia]

Okay, I guess it's back to calibre.