How can I organize a large book collection?

From what I understand iBooks only supports 1-level folders/categories. For instance, what I'd like to have is various genres at a top level (fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, religion, ecc.) and then several folders in each one of them, to group similar books or topics. Is this possibile in some way?

Checking the manual and from testing, it looks like the single level of Collections is all there is.  The best I can do is name Collections similarly and group them together in the Collections list.  But if you have lots of "subcategories", the list gets long.  At least it's better than before.

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