02-15-2013, 06:24 PM | #31 |
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This simply isn't accurate. You may have sent some books to the Kindle after it was ordered (and prior to it having arrived), and those would download automatically, but a new Kindle will not download all of the ebooks in your Kindle archive.
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02-16-2013, 02:00 AM | #32 | |
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02-16-2013, 06:11 AM | #33 |
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Perhaps you had books pending delivery when you got your new Kindle so they downloaded straight away? That apart, there's no way your Kindle automatically downloads the books that are sitting in your archive, you have to 'ask' it to deliver them, either via the Amazon website or the archive on your Kindle. Syncing only downloads any books that you've either bought and haven't had delivered to your Kindle yet, or books you've selected from your Amazon cloud storage. If it automatically synced all your books stored in the cloud to your Kindle, every time you read a book and deleted it from your Kindle it'd reappear on your Kindle, wouldn't it?!
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02-16-2013, 08:14 AM | #34 | |
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I move my TBR books to a new Kindle in about 3 hours and I've never had a problem. Perhaps novels, which would be 95% of my books, are less indexing intensive. |
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02-16-2013, 11:32 AM | #35 | |
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I use a spreadsheet where I also note down what I bought and how much it costed me, and I note also whether I read it or not. I need that because I noticed one day that I had bought twice a book and I did not notice. Memory is not what is used to be, and anyway with so many books ..... For the practical purpose of dealing with the reader, though, I have created a boolean attribute in Calibre, which tells me whether I have read the ebook or not. This way I can keep my readers synchronised. And for the future I shall pay more attention, and download / sideload just a few books at a time. And check the indexing is over, before continuing. I believe the re-indexing was needed by the firmware upgrade this time and it was a massive thing. Cross my finger, I hope I do not need to do it again. EDIT : How did I end up with so many books. Sigh, how can you resist this offer https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=189173&page=2 Last edited by brudigia; 02-16-2013 at 11:39 AM. Reason: Offers in Amazon Shop |
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02-16-2013, 12:54 PM | #36 |
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It's weird that it took so long to index though - I also have around 650 ebooks and I moved them from Calibre to the PW in batches of 200 or thereabout, then just left the Kindle asleep and plugged into a wall charger while it was indexing. I did the last batch this morning and it took about 2 and a half hours to index 200.
I have also in the past transfered stuff to the K3 in fairly big batches and indexing was reasonably fast too (again Kindle asleep and plugged in) Last edited by Yolina; 02-16-2013 at 12:57 PM. |
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This is simple and requires essentially no effort. It can't track what books I've already bought, though, that's true, but then that's a problem I already have in physical bookshops, and at least Amazon can often warn you that you already bought something. |
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02-16-2013, 05:09 PM | #39 |
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I can't speak for brudigia, but I keep a separate list as I have more than one Kindle, as well as a couple of other ereaders. I keep my books in calibre so I can easily transfer them to whatever device I want, and I keep a separate list of all books I read in Delicious Library, as I want to keep track of library and audio books as well.
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The Excel spreadsheet, as I said, is more of a safeguard for my memory. In 12 years (I started ereading on a PocketPC) I have bought more than 1000 books, which, being made of bits, do not appear on my physical bookshelf and thus I need to keep track of them. I am also a fan for stats, therefore I also keep track of what I buy, and how much I spend. That is all. Calibre would be enough for me ( a toast to Kovid and all the Calibre team, it has become indispensible for me) if I did not want to know what I am spending. Last edited by brudigia; 02-17-2013 at 02:47 AM. |
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Edit: never mind, it is only for Mac. Last edited by brudigia; 02-17-2013 at 02:46 AM. |
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I'm still having this problem with indexing. Namely that it stops at a "problem" book and won't continue. I've tried loading a few at a time but it's particular books not the amount that cause the problem.
Trouble is I haven't found a way to identify which books cause the problem so I'm left with the task of adding one book at a time and checking whether it indexes ok. I haven't got time to do that. So I live with it - which is a shame because I actually find the search one of the most useful parts of having an ereader. |
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