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Originally Posted by johnelle
I have used the Kindle app on Android for many years. Lately it has become more and more heavy handed in trying to force me to buy books from the market even though they are sitting on my Kindle (tablet). Currently selecting the "Library" only shows the last 6-7 books downloaded and if I want something a week old I have to go searching for it and even then it takes some doing to find it. I can't figure out how to get it to display all the books in the library like it would on the PC.
Is there some magic setting I missed?
Is it time to go to an alternative reader not tied to the death star? (Google looks interesting).
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Can you share which version of the app you have? You can find this in the MORE menu (tap Info, then About).
LIBRARY is the only place where you won’t see books they are hoping to sell to you. In general, if you start there to open the book, when you close the book, it will return to LIBRARY. And it should stay set to LIBRARY between app sessions, unless there’s an update or you force close the app, when it will revert to HOME. I could do without this HOME thing altogether (Kindle devices and the iOS Kindle app have this also), but at least you can mostly ignore it (on iOS, you cannot actually purchase in-app due to Apple policy).
Sometimes the listing gets out of sync with what is in the Cloud, and the automatic refresh (or manual ‘pull down’ refresh) doesn’t correct it. To fix this, go to the MORE menu and select Sync. This will do a full refresh (it can take as long as a minute or more, depending on what is downloaded and how many items are in your library). I had to do this just now to get Collections to show up in the Kindle app on my Android tablet.