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On 10 May 2014, at 12:35, "'David H. Bailey' dhbailey52@comcast.net [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
On 5/9/2014 3:14 PM, floridabouvs floridabouvs@yahoo.com [iPad] wrote:
> I love ebooks and have them on my iPad -- from iBooks, Kindle, Nook, Bluefire Reader, and others.
>
> The problem is I can't find the books once I've acquired them. It is so much easier to look at a bookshelf than to remember where I have hidden them on my electronic devices.
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions for organizing among many books among so many book apps?
>
Other than using a database or spreadsheet program to create a record
for each book and which app it's in when you purchase it, I can't think
of any way to organize your books across different apps.
I have gotten around this by using iBooks only for reading PDF files and
sorting them into categories there, and then when I buy books, I buy
only Kindle books so that I can read them on both my Kindle Paperwhite
as well as the Kindle app on both iPad and iPhone. And for the
Paperwhite and the Kindle app on my iPad, I'm experimenting with the
categories although there isn't any way to link them across devices so
it's not that great a feature, I'm finding.
Alphabetically by author or alphabetically by title work well enough for me.
When I first bought my iPad I had several other reading apps installed
(Bluefire for ePub books and I experimented with Nook) but trying to
keep track of which app I purchased which book in was more bother than I
wanted to deal with.
Someday (sooner rather than later, I hope!) publishers will bypass all
these proprietary brands and come up with a single format (with DRM to
keep them all happy!) and it will be up to the various app creators to
get us to buy their particular app to make the reading experience
enjoyable and then 3rd-parties will be able to create their own reading
devices, knowing that it will be able to read all ebooks since there
will be only a single format. That will remove some of the power that
both Apple and Amazon have currently in the marketplace, will allow for
greater competition on price between publishers, will help bring ebook
prices back down to where they ought to be, and everybody (except Apple
and Amazon!) will be big winners.
But until that happens, I'm sticking with a single ebook format to make
my reading life more simple.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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