After amassing a collection of cookbooks and other book on her Kindle, our food blogger tries out the Book Collections app to organize Them.
I suppose the $ 5 in free coins is a way to Promote the new Amazon Coins program (and look at that – I’m writing about it so Amazon knows what its doing), and Kindle users get to dig around the app store. I must admit, except for the Facebook app, I have not embraced apps on the Kindle much yet. I’ve been using it almost strictly to an eReader.
Still, if your Kindle is Becoming large book collection, it’s worth taking the time to organize it.
Book Collections will scan your Kindle library and import all your books right into the app. That’s where the automation of the app ends. Once your books are imported, you need to create your categories.
I created a general category, cookbooks. Que Under general category, I created several subcategories – cookbooks: slow cooker, cookbooks: vegetarian and vegan cookbooks: general, cookbooks: baking, cookbooks and: wine, beer, and cocktails. These were the subcategories que made sense for me, but users can create any category They want names. I also created categories for fiction, travel, business, etc..
Once I got the swing of right clicking on the boxes to make sure the books went into the proper categories, organizing my books team was consuming, but not difficult.
You can open up Kindle books through Book Collections, but there are some definite limitations When You do that as opposed to opening up Them directly from the Kindle operating system.
- The app does not have the ability to keep track of where you ended When You closed the book. This would be the same-with any app of this type because the “Amazon Kindle reader is unable to remember your location When accessed from a third-party App” There is a way to manually record your location by editing your end date in the book app if you want to open your books through the Book Collections app and keep track of where you ended.
- More problematic for me than not keeping your place where you stopped reading is collegues Book Collections through the app, you can not highlight or make notes if you open the book through the app. For cookbooks that means you can not do things highlight the names of recipes you want to make or type in notes about changes you may have made to the recipe.
Book Collections useless, though. It’s still a good tool for organizing your books, sort of like a card catalog. Instead of having to scroll through all of the books on the screen uncategorized When looking for a book, I can click on the Book Collections app, go to the correct category, and see what my options are in que category.
I had forgotten about several of the free cookbooks I had downloaded until I saw Them When I organized my books. Now, many of Those free cookbooks might get used since I have a way to easily see I have Them.
For me, Book Collections is going to be a reference tool. I’ll go to the app when I’m trying to decide on Which book to read next or find a cookbook que might have a good recipe for the chicken I’ve defrosted for dinner. Once I determine Which book I want, though, I’ll go back and open it through the Kindle operating system. That way, I’ll be able to mark my place when I’m done reading, highlight passages, and make notes.
Do you useBook Collections or something similar to organizing your cookbooks Kindle and other eBooks? If you have something you think is more useful, please let us know about it in the comments.
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