Kindle Collections – How to Organize Your Kindle Books Easily Using Your Computer

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How to Use a Kindle Ereader to Organize Your Kindle Books into Collections

Read below to learn how to create Kindle Collections using your computer.

If you’ve been reading Kindle books for a while, you may have accumulated hundreds or even thousands of books by now. But trying to find which books you want to read in your library may be a challenge.

Whether you’re reading Kindle books on a Kindle ereader, phone, tablet or your computer, you may want an easy way to find books in your library.

Kindle Collections

The good news is that you can easily organize your library of Kindle books into collections. You may want to create collections for:

• Books I’ve Read
• Books I Want to Read
• Unread Books I May Get to Some Day
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Best Sellers
• Books I Want to Lend to Others
• Reference Books
• Favorite Books

As you look at books in your Kindle library, you may find titles fall naturally into categories you can create collections for. Or you may use collections to sort books you’ve read from books you haven’t read yet.

Collections sync to the Cloud so if you create a collection on one device, you’ll be able to see it on other devices.

You can add books to multiple collections. So you can add a book to both your Unread and Fiction collections, for example.

If you delete a collection, the books in it will not be deleted.
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How To Create Kindle Collections

Creating collections for your Kindle books is very easy. By taking a few moments to create a collection, you can start organizing your Kindle books.

Creating a Collection on the Amazon Website

You can create Kindle collections from the Amazon website. This may be the most efficient way to create a collection because you can sort your entire Kindle library into collections from the site.

Go to Manage Your Content and Devices and click Show: Collections from the drop-down menu.

A page will open showing your collections (if you have any). Click the Create New Collection button to create a new collection.

After you have created a collection go to Show: Books. Each Kindle book in your library will be shown there.

Click on the three dot button next to a book. Choose Add to Collection to add your books to your collections.

You can also create a collection from the Books page. When you click on the three dots next to a book, and choose Add to collections, you can start typing in the box to create a new collection. After you’re satisfied with the name of your new collection, choose “create new collection [name of collection]. ”  Click the Add to collection button to add the book to your new collection.

To see the collection on your device, go to the menu and choose Sync and Check for New Items. The new collections should appear.
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Creating a Kindle Collection Using a Kindle Ereader

If you have a Kindle ereader, creating a collection is simple. Go to the Home page by tapping the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar. Tap the Home icon on the left side to open the Home page. Open the drop-down menu by pressing the three bars in the upper right corner of your screen.

Tap Create New Collection. You will be asked to name the collection.

Your list of books on your Kindle ereader will appear with a check box next to them. Tap the box to add books on your Kindle ereader to the collection you just created.

Creating Collections Using the Kindle App on iPhone and iPad

To create a collection using the Kindle app on an iPhone or iPad, tap the three stacked bars in the upper left corner of the screen to open the menu. Tap Collections.

A new screen will open that will show your collections, if you have any. Tap the + plus sign in the upper right corner to add a collection. You will be asked to name your new collection.

Open a collection and tap the + plus button to add your Kindle books to your collection. Choose the ones you want to add, then tap Done.

Creating Collections Using an Android Device

Creating collections on Android devices is the same as creating collections on iPhone and iPad. In the Kindle app, tap the three stacked lines in the upper right corner of the home page to reveal a drop-down menu. Tap Collections.

You will see your collections, if you have any. You can add collections by tapping the + plus button.

Open a collection and tap the + plus button to add your Kindle books to your collection. Tap the books you want to add, then tap Done.

More Information about Kindle Collections

You can find more information about Kindle Collections at the Amazon About Cloud Collections page.

Your Thoughts

Do you need to organize your Kindle books? Have you created any collections for your Kindle books? How do you use collections to organize Kindle books?

Share your thoughts in the Comments section below!

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