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tomsem · 10-06-2010, 09:44 PM

Calibre definitely formats the news so that Kindle thinks of them as 'issues'. I have one item which has 3 previous 'issues' in the "Periodicals: Back Issues" grouping. These have all the attributes of 'issues': the info page has 'Keep This Issue' and 'Delete This Issue' options. I'm confident that when the total number of issues gets to 7, Kindle will begin deleting the oldest issue that hasn't been flagged to 'Keep'.

I am currently running the definitive experiment that will prove to me, to you, and yes, to the entire world, that Kindle will delete these as predicted.

But it will take some time (the one I picked takes about 10 minutes to generate and send.

UPDATE: So far, while it tags the oldest with '!' icon, it hasn't deleted anything, and I have 9 issues in my Back Issues grouping, and counting. So it looks like you have to actually remove them manually.

"Predictions are hard, especially about the future."

10-06-2010, 09:44 PM	#10
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,944 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Calibre definitely formats the news so that Kindle thinks of them as 'issues'. I have one item which has 3 previous 'issues' in the "Periodicals: Back Issues" grouping. These have all the attributes of 'issues': the info page has 'Keep This Issue' and 'Delete This Issue' options. I'm confident that when the total number of issues gets to 7, Kindle will begin deleting the oldest issue that hasn't been flagged to 'Keep'. I am currently running the definitive experiment that will prove to me, to you, and yes, to the entire world, that Kindle will delete these as predicted. But it will take some time (the one I picked takes about 10 minutes to generate and send. UPDATE: So far, while it tags the oldest with '!' icon, it hasn't deleted anything, and I have 9 issues in my Back Issues grouping, and counting. So it looks like you have to actually remove them manually. "Predictions are hard, especially about the future." Last edited by tomsem; 10-06-2010 at 10:55 PM.