Kindle to get folders? Apparently
By Paul Biba
Is Amazon about to address a gripe of many serious e-bookers—and give the Kindle folders, so people can organize their e-libraries better?
Apparently. Fron 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.”
(Thanks to John Hagewood for the link)
November 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Curious that they would announce something this significant on Facebook and not on their own blog site, web site or any other ‘official’ Amazon site.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Jerry: Excellent question, but, yes, this is legit.
Thanks,
David
November 20th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I’d suggest that Amazon may be responding not so much to a gripe, as to the reality that without folders using the devices for educational purposes is just plain scary; and Amazon is pushing fairly seriously for adoption in educational settings.
I loved using my Kindle for a graduate course spring semester of ‘09. Now that I’m taking another course in the same field spring semester of ‘10, I’m saying “hooooolyyyyy cr@p.” Because all readings for both classes are journal articles. Because the upgrade might not even happen before the class ends, I will probably just move the old readings off of the device entirely, into a folder on my pc, and go from there. I did not used to care at all about folders. I do now. In fact, I’m looking forward to this improvement in a big way.
Oh. And — Jerry’s question *is* an excellent one. Guess I’d better ‘become a fan’ of Kindle on Facebook.