Albums and events question

Hi when I drag folders containing photos into Iphoto it creates an event. What I currently do is after the event is created, I select an event, I hit the + sign in the bottom left and create an album.
I like having my albums on the left side for quick access to my library of photos. The problem is that if I add 30 folders, 30 events are then created.
I have to manually create an album out of each event one at a time. Is there any way that once an event is created it automatically creates and album. So say that 10 events are created, 10 albums will appear on the left.
If I select a couple events and hit the + option and hit create an album, it will only create one album out of the events selected. I would like to select multiple events at one time and have multiple albums created instead of just one. How do I do that?
Is what I want to do possible? thanks

Well let me answer a question with a question
Why have all your Events mimicked in Albums? IF you can find the pic in an Event, you can find it in an Album.
To say nothing of all the basics: If you have the year, month, day. Title, keywords, camera a model etc etc you can use any (and all) of these to find your pics too.
To merge Events: Simply drag one to another in the iPhoto Window.
Regards
TD

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