Managing Your Library
In the last chapter, you read that your Kindle, depending on which model, can hold either 1,500 or 3,500 books. If you’ve spent much time in your Kindle’s book list, you’ve likely come to the conclusion that anything more than twenty books can be a pain to manage. If you had to go page-by-page through a list of 1,500 books on your Kindle, it’d probably feel like you spent as much time browsing through your book list as you’d spend actually reading a book.
Luckily for you, in the latest update to the Kindle’s firmware (the computer code that makes it work), Amazon finally offers a nice, reasonably flexible system of organizing all the stuff you read. After all, the point is to read books with your Kindle, not just book titles.
Note: By the time you read this, your Kindle should have been updated to a firmware version that contains all of the features discussed in this chapter. (This book assumes that you have at least version 2.5.2.)
If your Kindle doesn’t offer the features covered here, visit the Kindle Software Updates web page at http://tinyurl.com/amazon-software-updates.
Organize Your Book List
The Kindle positions itself as the future of books. With that comes the need to be the future of bookshelves. The beauty of the Kindle is its ability to hold more books than you could ever read in a lifetime. But, just like a bookshelf, your Kindle can be organized and well-maintained or it can be, well, a mess.
Unlike bookshelves, though, your Kindle’s book ...
