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FreunLaven · 06-07-2015, 12:00 AM

I admit that redownloading all my books is not a critical issue. Just an annoyance that I figured somebody else would share and hopefully have a solution.

Surely it's just a matter of the correct URL command. something like amazon.com/download/userid/bookid/deviceid or something. I haven't tried figuring things out from the amazon download page source.

Many of the books are free. Probably half are junk. But there are many that I do want to keep and may want to read (again or for the first time) in a few years. And just because a book is free doesn't mean its junk, either. Especially when authors do a 'free' promotion or make the first book of a series free.

This is actually my *second* kindle account. My first one started right before the kindle touch was released. I went wild buying, both free and paid books.

Then I discovered my kindle touch had a limit of about 5000 books and I had more than that. (Actually I think it was less than that and an update raised it to 5k) So I started deleting books that were junk and had been free. Had to do it several times. Then I discovered I had accidently deleted several paid books. Uh oh. Had to buy them again when I wanted to re-read them. Kick yourself time when you realize you've deleted a couple $10 books.

About two years ago, I started a second amazon account just for the cheap & free books, and keep the important things and purchased ones on my main account. Things went fairly well. Except for the inconvenience of having two ebook accounts and books I'm wanting to read always being on the other account. But that's the way things went.

Then I discovered I had more books than what my paperwhite could handle. More than 15,000. No problem, I'll buy a fire tablet, and I'll be able to use the 'family' account to join both accounts and have them available to read on one device.

Uh oh, that can't handle that many books either without crashing!

Trying to go through 17k worth of books to see what is worth keeping is difficult on a device that can't show all of them, or keeps crashing.

And I'd still like to have them all under caliber where I could organize them. (I've already done that with my first kindle account.)

Kindle for PC can't handle many books. Photo tours of other countries, titles with non-English in the title, etc. Neither can the kindle touch.

And I was briefly using the paperwhite to receive books as I bought them. Until I discovered the new two part book format that amazon is doing. But I don't have a complete collection anyway, because I didn't think things were going to be a problem later when I decided to actually start organizing things. (I also got lax on that for a variety of personal reasons which I wont go into.) I got lax. It happened.

And I'm an old fogie. I like to keep things that I buy. I like to have a copy of things I've bought. Downloaded software, music, movies, etc. I do that with many other things, and actually do backups of backups. I just didn't think it'd be a problem with ebooks. I got lax with them because I didn't think it'd be a problem. Shrug.

And even if I did download everything, I don't have a single device that I can do it on. KPC & KT can't see many items. The paperwhite can, but I'm stuck with two part books and only 15k. The fire crashes.

(Oh, and the paperwhite can't handle more than 990 in a collection, either. I learned that after I spent a week working with the fire and its crashes to create a list of books that did seem interesting.) (And the more items in a collection, the slower the PW and Fire get, anyway.)

Sigh.

Apparently I'm just screwed no matter what.

Oh, one other thing! Do you remember the Amazon Media Library web page? Where you could put tags on various items (books, movies, mp3, etc.) and do a bit of sorting? Before Amazon replaced "Manage my Kindle" with their new management page, you could go there and sort things out and anything you put into the 'trash' folder would be hidden from the MYK site. Making it easier to go through and delete books. (You couldn't delete books from the AML page.) Well, that doesn't work with the new manage my kindle page.

Alright, thanks for trying folks. I do appreciate it.

Looks like no good solution other than download what I can onto KPC, and then what can't be downloaded, try to do it on my PW2, I guess.

Looks like I'm going to have fun for a few weekends.

Again, thanks for trying to help.

06-07-2015, 12:00 AM	#10
FreunLaven Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: kindle	I admit that redownloading all my books is not a critical issue. Just an annoyance that I figured somebody else would share and hopefully have a solution. Surely it's just a matter of the correct URL command. something like amazon.com/download/userid/bookid/deviceid or something. I haven't tried figuring things out from the amazon download page source. Many of the books are free. Probably half are junk. But there are many that I do want to keep and may want to read (again or for the first time) in a few years. And just because a book is free doesn't mean its junk, either. Especially when authors do a 'free' promotion or make the first book of a series free. This is actually my second kindle account. My first one started right before the kindle touch was released. I went wild buying, both free and paid books. Then I discovered my kindle touch had a limit of about 5000 books and I had more than that. (Actually I think it was less than that and an update raised it to 5k) So I started deleting books that were junk and had been free. Had to do it several times. Then I discovered I had accidently deleted several paid books. Uh oh. Had to buy them again when I wanted to re-read them. Kick yourself time when you realize you've deleted a couple $10 books. About two years ago, I started a second amazon account just for the cheap & free books, and keep the important things and purchased ones on my main account. Things went fairly well. Except for the inconvenience of having two ebook accounts and books I'm wanting to read always being on the other account. But that's the way things went. Then I discovered I had more books than what my paperwhite could handle. More than 15,000. No problem, I'll buy a fire tablet, and I'll be able to use the 'family' account to join both accounts and have them available to read on one device. Uh oh, that can't handle that many books either without crashing! Trying to go through 17k worth of books to see what is worth keeping is difficult on a device that can't show all of them, or keeps crashing. And I'd still like to have them all under caliber where I could organize them. (I've already done that with my first kindle account.) Kindle for PC can't handle many books. Photo tours of other countries, titles with non-English in the title, etc. Neither can the kindle touch. And I was briefly using the paperwhite to receive books as I bought them. Until I discovered the new two part book format that amazon is doing. But I don't have a complete collection anyway, because I didn't think things were going to be a problem later when I decided to actually start organizing things. (I also got lax on that for a variety of personal reasons which I wont go into.) I got lax. It happened. And I'm an old fogie. I like to keep things that I buy. I like to have a copy of things I've bought. Downloaded software, music, movies, etc. I do that with many other things, and actually do backups of backups. I just didn't think it'd be a problem with ebooks. I got lax with them because I didn't think it'd be a problem. Shrug. And even if I did download everything, I don't have a single device that I can do it on. KPC & KT can't see many items. The paperwhite can, but I'm stuck with two part books and only 15k. The fire crashes. (Oh, and the paperwhite can't handle more than 990 in a collection, either. I learned that after I spent a week working with the fire and its crashes to create a list of books that did seem interesting.) (And the more items in a collection, the slower the PW and Fire get, anyway.) Sigh. Apparently I'm just screwed no matter what. Oh, one other thing! Do you remember the Amazon Media Library web page? Where you could put tags on various items (books, movies, mp3, etc.) and do a bit of sorting? Before Amazon replaced "Manage my Kindle" with their new management page, you could go there and sort things out and anything you put into the 'trash' folder would be hidden from the MYK site. Making it easier to go through and delete books. (You couldn't delete books from the AML page.) Well, that doesn't work with the new manage my kindle page. Alright, thanks for trying folks. I do appreciate it. Looks like no good solution other than download what I can onto KPC, and then what can't be downloaded, try to do it on my PW2, I guess. Looks like I'm going to have fun for a few weekends. Again, thanks for trying to help.