Thread by @JenReadsRomance

So if you have a very large TBR on your eReader, today is a good day to think about organizing for a new reading year. I manage my kindle collections pretty ruthlessly.

Here are some of the things on my new year's kindle maintenance plan.

Delete every sample. If you haven't read them yet & haven't downloaded the full book, you aren't going to. Bye.

Related: from here on out, don't ever download samples. Anytime you are tempted by a book , use the "look inside" feature. You are going to know instantaneously if you are interested. Don't clog up your eReader with samples.

Let's talk about collections. You don't have to do it this way, but sometimes it just helps to hear how other people tackle this.

I have standing collections for every romance subgenre that I read: contemporary, historical, PNR, etc.

Then, I made a pair of folders for each, one is R Contemporary, the other is TBR Contemporary.

TBR is obviously "to be read" and R is "read"

Right now, the TBR folders have all of the books I bought, downloaded, or wanted to read last year. Now that it's New Year's Day. I reevaluate those folders. My goal is to empty them out as much as possible--only keeping the most recent 1 or 2 books that I've downloaded.

All the others get moved into a huge folder called TBR: One Day. This is basically the land of misfit toys. It is unlikely I will ever read them, and I'm just being honest with myself.

Then, in the new year, any new books I buy get sorted into the TBR subgenre folders. It's the most accurate current running list of books I hope to read.

sometimes for fun I look in the One Day folder, but my interests change all the time.

Once I've read a book in the TBR folder, I move it to the R folders. I never clear those out, they just get bigger and bigger.

I don't always do this right away. Just every few weeks, I'll put books I've read into the R folders.

For reviewers: I create a TBR ARCs folder. Once a book is past its publication date, I either move it to a folder called ARCS abandoned, or if I still really want to read it, I move it to the subgenre folder so I remember that I have it.

Every year, I make a new ARCs Read folder with the year. R: ARCs 2022.

I have hundreds of ARCs, and this just helps me keep track of when I read things.

obviously this is kind of intense, but I feel like it helps me manage and sort through my TBR pile.

Also, it's MUCH EASIER to do this on an iPad than on a freestanding kindle.

Also, if you've never done any sorting or organizing of your TBR before, it's a lot of time, but VERY REWARDING once it's all done.

But it's annoying bc I really do believe that for some unknown reason, AMZ makes it way more complicated to make collections than it needs to be.

PS. You have to go to Your Content and Devices to delete library books permanently.

the more I think about all of this, the more pissed off I am. It's difficult and clunky by design, and I hate that.

For example, on the desktop Kindle Cloud Reader, you can't even SEE your collections.

Who do I know that works at Amazon? I JUST WANT TO TALK.

PS. I TAKE ALL OF THIS BACK, I'M ORDERING A KOBO. THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT.

AMAZON HAS ACTUALLY MADE THIS MORE LABORIOUS AND DIFFICULT TO DO SINCE LAST YEAR.

god. i am so pissed.