[Cath]

Is there a way to keep only the books that are currently on my kindle, and permanently delete the rest? I download a LOT of books on my kindle, and then 'delete' (i.e. remove from my kindle) a lot of them after reading because they're not worth keeping (although I keep a lot, as well).

There are two reasons I want to do this - firstly, if I occasionally want to find a book to read on my phone (while waiting at the dentist, for example), I have to browse the entire archive which includes the books I've 'deleted'. And there's no way I can recognise which I deleted and which I didn't.

Secondly, I had to replace my kindle due to cracks on the casing, but I couldn't just let it download all my books over again, since it would download all the 'deleted' books as well. Again, I don't want to download all the books in my account; only the ones that I didn't remove from the device.

Essentially, I want to do a bulk cleanup of my archive. I know I can delete books one by one, using MYK, but since there's a lot of them, and I can't remember the titles of the ones I do or don't want, and there's no way to distinguish which have been archived ('deleted') other than by looking each one up on my kindle to see if it's still there.... well, it's rather a daunting task!

(I do realise there's a downside to cleaning out that archive list - if I do try to buy a book, not realising that I tried it and didn't like it, Amazon won't know and will let me buy it again. I do love my kindle, but the book management aspect is sadly lacking - and don't get me started on categories!).