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EDIT: Turns out this is not true, you CAN delete books out of the archive. They responded very quickly with the below email.
If, like me, you DON'T see a particular title in your MANAGE MY KINDLE page chances are you put it in the TRASH on the MEDIA LIBRARY PAGE. Do as Whitearrow suggests and UNtrash it: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...045#post687031 Quote:
After I got my kindle I of course went on a downloading spree getting all kinds of books for it, some free some very inexpensive. many that I've heard of and wanted to read, a few I just tucked away for the future. I was surprised when I learned that once you download a book from Amazon it is in your Kindle archive FOREVER. There is no way to delete it so that it won't show up any more. Yes those embarrassing books you bought in the privacy of your home are there listed in the archive for all time. The books you downloaded just to get a taste for them - and ended up hating - are stuck there on the list forever. They are listed in ALL Kindles you have registered to your account. Give your Kid a Kindle and want to have them on your joint Amazon Kindle account? They can see ALL your books. Adult, inappropriate or just bad books, they are all there ready to deliver silently by Whispernet directly to their own Kindle. Please join me in emailing Amazon and insist that this be made possible. Hopefully the link below will take yo to their feedback page. I have attached a copy of my email to them, please feel free to modify it or of course ignore it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/conta...d=508510#csTop Quote:
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12-08-2009, 01:21 PM | #2 |
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You grabbed that free Western book that turned out to be cowboy and rodeo clown erotica -- it would be nice to delete this thing. I too hope that Amazon gives us the ability to delete books we do not want in our library. (It would also be nice to upload books as a backup. That is, books not aquired from Amazon.) So I'm all for rootman's suggestion to email Amazon and ask for this feature.
However, if you contact Amazon support and ask them to removed a specific book(s) they will. |
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12-08-2009, 01:25 PM | #3 |
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Does any online bookstore actually give you the option to permanently delete books from your account? I vaguely remember something about someone who wanted Fictionwise to delete a book and they refused....
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12-08-2009, 01:28 PM | #4 |
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Amazon did delete a book for me.
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12-08-2009, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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Amazon has deleted for me as well.
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12-08-2009, 01:44 PM | #6 |
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I would be satisfied if Amazon added a field to the Manage Your Kindle page to "hide book from Archive." That would eliminate the customer service issue of people accidentally deleting, but also allow for a greater degree of privacy.
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12-08-2009, 02:26 PM | #7 | |
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I just received this from Amazon:
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Does this work for anyone else? |
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12-08-2009, 02:44 PM | #8 |
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just tried.. it no longer shows up in my archive on my iphone kindle app but if i go to "View all Orders" it still shows up there... Haven't tried on my kindle yet, cause I am paranoid about turning on wireless...
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12-08-2009, 02:48 PM | #9 |
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why??
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12-08-2009, 02:52 PM | #10 |
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not sure if you are asking why in reference to my post about me being paranoid... but if you are... its cause i removed the drm on a couple of the books i have downloaded from amazon so that I can add the way points.. i like to know how far I am to the next chapter...
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12-08-2009, 02:54 PM | #11 |
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12-08-2009, 02:58 PM | #12 |
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after you stripping the drm, assuming that there is a table of contents, i drop the book in calibre and convert it to the same format, and calibre adds the waypoints based on the table of contents..
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12-08-2009, 03:00 PM | #13 |
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12-08-2009, 03:02 PM | #14 |
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np
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12-08-2009, 03:03 PM | #15 |
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are you paranoid about the stripping and Amazon seeing it? I wouldn't be. the ONLY reason they removed that one book that one time is because it was being treated like they had transferred stolen property.
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