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Multiple copies of book on Paperwhite that won't delete
Ok, here's what I did wrong. I had a book on my Paperwhite that I sent to it from Calibre. Then I decided I didn't like the formating of the author's name, so I edited it in the metadata in Calibre and resent the file.
I ended up with two copies of the book on the Paperwhite, and neither of them will fully delete. I tried deleting them on the kindle, but I end up with 2 place holder book covers with the name of the book on them and when I try to open them it says the books are no longer on the device and won't open. I can't get rid of the icons for the books though. I tried restarting the Paperwhite. I tried reloading the books onto the device, which allows me to open the books, but I still have multiple copies that won't fully delete. I tried using Calibre to delete the files after reloading them, and got the same result. I had to reformat the device. I'm wondering if there is a less drastic solution in case I ever mess up and do this again. |
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I had the same issue and I had to reset my PW2 to factory. I am not sure what the issue was. I have not had any issues since then.
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you can try to navigate to the Kindle with Windows Explorer and manually delete the book's folder. The Kindle will rebuild its index automatically.
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I tired that too without success. Even deleted the meta file in kindle (think that's what it was called) and it did rebuild.
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Try this (no guarantees):
If this is a purchased book (and if you side-loaded it to the Kindle), AND if you put this inside a Collection, then go to the Cloud and find the book and remove it from the collection. See what happens after that. |
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Nope, not a purchased book, but good thought.
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The answer is, don't sideload multiple copies of the same book with the same internal identifiers but different metadata.
![]() You WILL bork the Content Catalog. You WILL have to reset. (Or you could delete the Content Catalog manually, which requires a root shell, i.e. jailbroken. In case you want to do that, the Content Catalog is at "/var/local/cc.db") |
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