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dmetzcher · 03-11-2012, 07:46 PM

This seems to be a bug, and it affects periodicals that you send to your Kindle via your @kindle.com email address which are also archived by Amazon. When you tap-and-hold a periodical that you sent to yourself (via Calibre, Instapaper, SendToReader.com, Readability, etc), a menu will not appear. Nothing happens at all, in fact.

There are two ways around it right now.

Turn off the archiving of personal documents that you send to your Kindle (this can be done on Amazon's Web site).
Delete the document in your personal documents archive. Tap Menu, then "Sync and Check for New Items", on the Kindle itself.

If you now tap on the periodical you want to delete, it will display the menu, and one of the options in the menu will be to delete the document. I turned off archiving of personal documents, for now, since it is easier than going to Amazon's site to delete individual documents first before deleting them on the Kindle. I also use SendToReader.com to send everything to my Kindle, and that service already keeps a copy of everything I send, so I haven't lost anything. If you email documents directly to your Kindle, however, they will not be archived anywhere.

Here's a bit more detail.

03-11-2012, 07:46 PM	#2
dmetzcher Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 3, iPad, iPhone	This seems to be a bug, and it affects periodicals that you send to your Kindle via your @kindle.com email address which are also archived by Amazon. When you tap-and-hold a periodical that you sent to yourself (via Calibre, Instapaper, SendToReader.com, Readability, etc), a menu will not appear. Nothing happens at all, in fact. There are two ways around it right now. Turn off the archiving of personal documents that you send to your Kindle (this can be done on Amazon's Web site). Delete the document in your personal documents archive. Tap Menu, then "Sync and Check for New Items", on the Kindle itself. If you now tap on the periodical you want to delete, it will display the menu, and one of the options in the menu will be to delete the document. I turned off archiving of personal documents, for now, since it is easier than going to Amazon's site to delete individual documents first before deleting them on the Kindle. I also use SendToReader.com to send everything to my Kindle, and that service already keeps a copy of everything I send, so I haven't lost anything. If you email documents directly to your Kindle, however, they will not be archived anywhere. Here's a bit more detail.