Kindle advice

[ardstrawray]

I have hundreds of books that I have read on my Kindle, advice please on how to delete them permanently.

[lee666]

Ardstrawray

You can delete them from your device but I believe they stay on your Amazon account.

To take them off your device:

Press the Home icon and the carousel should come up, just press and hold down on the books you want to delete and three options should come up, then just chose whether deleting from your device or carousel.

Hope that helps.

[Keithcaley]

If you have an earlier Kindle - the one with the 3G keyboard, & the 5-way naigation button arrangement, press the 'Home' button, & tab down to the title that you want, then press the left hand cursor key - you will get a message 'remove from device' - then press the centre square button, & Voila! - Gone!

As lee666 said, they do remain accessible in the 'Archived Items' (on the last page of the Home screen).

Hope this helps...

If you have the one with a 'touch screen' as the only means of navigation , then I've no idea - you may have to 'Google' it

[waddo]

Download calibre onto your PC, hook up your kindle and shift them into calibre - problem solved and you get to keep all your books in one place. On the plus side, calibre is free!!!!!

[Keithcaley]

Download calibre onto your PC, hook up your kindle and shift them into calibre - problem solved and you get to keep all your books in one place. On the plus side, calibre is free!!!!!

Dream on!!

You're talking to 'Albert William' here!

No disrespect intended, but he's not exactly a teenage hacker

p.s. although if it comes to it, I hit 70 yesterday

[waddo]

Happy birthday for yesterday, you are a year ahead of me - lol.

[jofra]

" ....I believe they stay on your Amazon account/they do remain accessible in the 'Archived Items'..."
Having just checked my archived items (with wifi connection in operation), it appears to confirm what I suspected - only those items you have downloaded/obtained from/via Amazon are "archived". In my case (several hundreds of books), the vast majority came free from various sources (such as Baen books, Project Gutenberg, etc.), and none of these are archived. From the beginning, I have kept copies on my laptop after loading via Calibre (also very useful for converting epubs to mobi for Kindle).

[sophie]

I'm like a Keith, a bit o a flat footed Freda when it comes to stuff like that, but for those in the know, is it possible to transfer books from one Kindle to another? In Pidgin English please.

[jofra]

If bought/obtained free from Amazon - simply, no. It can be done using Calibre or a similar program with certain "decoding" extras added on - but it's somewhat difficult and time-consuming.
If (like most of mine) are from other sources, usually yes - connect your Kindle to your computer, find the 'title'.mobi file that you want, copy to your computer - then connect the other kindle, copy the mobi file from your computer to the Kindle!

[Keithcaley]

...- only those items you have downloaded/obtained from/via Amazon are "archived".

Generally true, although there is an exception to that rule now, I think, as indicated in this email that I received 24/01/2012: -

Amazon Kindle Support <cust.service03@amazon.com>

01/24/12 at 3:51 PM

Tokeithcaley@yahoo.com


Message body

Dear Kindle Customer,

We noticed you recently used the Kindle Personal Document Service. The service now automatically archives personal documents in your Kindle library until you choose to delete them. You can always use Manage Your Kindle to see a list of your archived documents, re-deliver documents to your Kindle, delete any document from your archive, or turn off archiving for your account.

You can learn more about the Kindle Personal Document Service on our help pages.

Thank you for choosing Kindle,
Amazon Kindle Support

This appears to be confirmed on the Amazon website, although the final paragraph "Important: We may limit the number of documents you send or store through Kindle Personal Documents Service. For more information, go to . " (with NO actual 'GoTo' Link!) seems to indicate that they do not want you to consider this feature to be a free unlimited 'Cloud Storage Facility'!

It should mean, however, that you could email legally acquired Free Books to your Kindle Email Address, and then 'Archive' them - I would be hesitant to send anything that I'd downloaded from, say, 'Pirate Bay' - as though I would do anything like that...

[jofra]

Ouch! That seems a very long-winded roundabout way of loading a book!
However, that does seem to make sense, but at the same time emphasises that it is downloads via Amazon (note "Kindle Document Service"/"Amazon Kindle Support") in one form or another.
Much simpler (to me) to just download to my computer and copy to my Kindle - and (to placate my paranoid fantasies ) also reduce the availability of information re. documents, books and any other acquisitions - after all, Amazon surely will be concerned as to my obtaining books from competing sources.....

[Keithcaley]

Ouch! That seems a very long-winded roundabout way of loading a book!
However, that does seem to make sense, but at the same time emphasises that it is downloads via Amazon (note "Kindle Document Service"/"Amazon Kindle Support") in one form or another.
Much simpler (to me) to just download to my computer and copy to my Kindle - and (to placate my paranoid fantasies ) also reduce the availability of information re. documents, books and any other acquisitions - after all, Amazon surely will be concerned as to my obtaining books from competing sources.....

I agree! - just pointing out that it can be done!

I use calibre, with the add-on that removes the restrictions, but not everyone is confident of going down that road...