They have collections on kindle for pc and kindle devices, but the collections do not synchronize between devices and they are absent from cloud reader as mentioned in this article. I don’t understand why Amazon cannot innovate in this area. Even on these genuine Kindle devices, the ability to organize and arrange content is severely limited. Update 2015: Since writing this, I’ve purchased two Kindle devices: a Kindle PaperWhite and a Kindle Fire HD (7″), plus an Amazon Fire Phone. Update April 3, 2012: I’ve just installed the Kindle software on my new Acer Iconia Tab A200 10.1″ tablet, and I find it extremely frustrating - not just because of the inability to organize books, but there’s also no way to mark a book as “read” or “in progress” (nor to edit book titles or append keywords for this purpose). Nor does Amazon allow users to search any Kindle (software or device) by genre.Ĭlearly, this is a business decision: Amazon hopes that by deliberately omitting this capability from Cloud Reader and other software for non-Kindle devices, consumers will opt instead to buy Kindle devices. And except for Kindle devices, Amazon provides no way for users to organize books themselves. I can view a list of books in alphabetic order by author or title, but not by genre.
As a result, enthusiastic readers who opt to acquire many dozens or hundreds of ebooks quickly find their collections to be completely unmanageable.īelow is a screen-capture of how books appear in Cloud Reader (note that this is just one screen capture, reflecting only a small fraction of the ebooks in my Amazon account).
Amazon has intentionally “crippled” its Kindle and Cloud Reader software for non-Kindle devices: the software doesn’t allow consumers to organize books in any way.
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