I am glad to have read this!
I am new.
I just bought my Kobo a few weeks ago, and since then I have bought a few books, and also have eagerly downloaded favorite titles from Gutenberg and from these forums (I really appreciate the volunteers who make these available - I am really getting into the classics!). Once I downloaded over 50 titles (Dickens, Wodehouse, Montgomery, etc) and I thought my hand would fall off clicking "remove from list" for each separate title.
I followed the instructions above, and voila