It's possible that "you are not the target market"; i.e. the fat part of the market demographic does have "100 or fewer" books on the device, and so the devices cater to that part of the market first.
But I agree, the search facilities in almost all the e-reading software I've seen leaves a lot to be desired (sort of like assuring all novelists that of course they can write their books using notepad or textedit or vi).
No, no you don't get it. Bookstores would not exist without the support of voracious readers. Other readers might but a dozen books a year, we buy hundreds. We are a tiny demographic, but booksellers fail to remember us at their peril. It's like how the liquor market would not exist in nearly the form it does without the 10% of customers who are heavy drinkers.
I am reminded of how in the "Read or die" anime, booksellers have a sign next to the cash reminding employees to be extra nice to the protagonist, a bibliomaniac who spends her entire income buying dozens of new books every day. That's not how Kobo, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon treat us. I expect no less from Amazon, since they aren't actually in the book buisiness except incidentally. But the other two should fucking know better.
Plus, our needs are not out of line with the needs of the lighter readers who make up the rest of their clientele. All we need is for the software to work well with huge libraries as well as small ones. "Show a list of authors instrad of a list of books" and decent searching including searching within search results would do it. "Put these books on a 'shelf' of their own, never mind what the metadata says," would be a nice extra.
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But I agree, the search facilities in almost all the e-reading software I've seen leaves a lot to be desired (sort of like assuring all novelists that of course they can write their books using notepad or textedit or vi).
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(Anonymous) 2017-08-03 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)I am reminded of how in the "Read or die" anime, booksellers have a sign next to the cash reminding employees to be extra nice to the protagonist, a bibliomaniac who spends her entire income buying dozens of new books every day. That's not how Kobo, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon treat us. I expect no less from Amazon, since they aren't actually in the book buisiness except incidentally. But the other two should fucking know better.
Plus, our needs are not out of line with the needs of the lighter readers who make up the rest of their clientele. All we need is for the software to work well with huge libraries as well as small ones. "Show a list of authors instrad of a list of books" and decent searching including searching within search results would do it. "Put these books on a 'shelf' of their own, never mind what the metadata says," would be a nice extra.
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