1 The standard Kindles let you organize books into collections, but none of the apps do. I'm surprised the Fire didn't get something better than the standard Android app.

-j

2

For all I know, it does. I've never read the manual. Maybe I'll look around in it to see what I can find.

...or I could actually check the manual. (Naah; manuals are for wimps.)

3 I just went through the manual (wimp!) and saw nothing in there about creating multiple bookshelves or any other way of subdividing the library.

4 I have 137 things (books and magazines) in the Kindle app on my Nexus 7.  The interface just plain sucks at that point.

(I snarfed down most of the Baen Free Library, which accounts for at least half of that number.  The rest came mostly from Baen and Fictionwise, all DRM-free.)

5 There is at least one app in the Amazon marketplace that will add collections to the Kindle Fire.  I can't imagine not having collections, I have around 250 books in the Kindle library on my Xoom, and even organized by author, series, etc. it's a pain to navigate.  I'd kill to be able to tag books, and then organize by tags.  "Science Fiction" "Fantasy" "Baen" "Lensman" etc

6 I wish I could have a "Lensmen" category. The Lensmen books aren't available for the Kindle, and I want to reread them.

7

Twice now I've found things which claimed to include "Masters of the Vortex", and bought them, only to discover that they only included the first chapter. (It was a published short story which he expanded to become a full book.)

Looks like this is stuff which just fell out of copyright.

8 Yep, out of copyright.  And thus fair game for project Gutenberg.  Mobi format files can be found here.

9

I didn't know about that.

The "Calibre" program is needed, but that was easy to find and install. It barfed when it tried to convert "First Lensman", but I don't care. I don't want to reread it.

And their copy of "The Vortex Blaster" is that same damned short story, first chapter, as everyone else has. Bummer. But the rest of it looks good. After my Fire finishes recharging I'll kick into Galactic Patrol.

Although I have a feeling that what they're offering is what was originally published in the magazine, and it may not be quite the same as the version I remember.

10 I got another Kindle - scrounged the old one from wife. It's the launch hardware, so the UI is drastically different. So... My Fire is called "Basroil" and I spent a minute or two trying to remember name of Marika's ship, to keep with a theme. Gave up and called it "Akagi", since that one had an anime appearance. Helloooo, Alzimer.

11 It's "Bentenmaru". And Chiaki's father's ship is "Barbaroosa".

12 When I retuned from Ireland, I left my Fire ("Basroil") at an airplane. Wife bought me a new one (a HD). "Bentenmaru" it is, then. Unfortunately, Akagi's battery is dying and given that it's more than 3 years old, we might retire it.