Cannot delete periodicals on K4 Touch

jondelfin · 03-11-2012, 05:19 PM

Each day I have Calibre compile daily newspapers etc and send then to my kindle 4 touch. This works fine, but they pile up and I cannot seem to delete them!! When I touch and hold on the periodical in the home page, no sub menu comes up [delete etc] like it does for items like books. On the K3, and K4 NT it put the older ones in the archives folder as new ones came in. Has anyone else observed this - not a big big deal as i just delete them once a week from my computer - just curious

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.

mikeschr · 03-11-2012, 08:05 PM

There's another thread about this here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=161544

Basically, you have to delete them from your Archived Items first before you can delete them using the interface on the Touch.

jondelfin · 03-12-2012, 12:12 AM

Excellent replies. At least for now there is a workaround / they were mostly newspapers which i do not need to archive anyway. Thanks again!

thomass · 03-12-2012, 04:43 AM

you can use this bookmarklet to batch delete them from your archive

HarryT · 03-12-2012, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jondelfin

Excellent replies. At least for now there is a workaround / they were mostly newspapers which i do not need to archive anyway. Thanks again!

Could you not delete them directly from the "documents" folder of the Kindle via the USB connection?

thomass · 03-12-2012, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Could you not delete them directly from the "documents" folder of the Kindle via the USB connection?

This could be problematic for indexing function

HarryT · 03-12-2012, 07:01 AM

Why more so than for books? I always delete books that way.

thomass · 03-12-2012, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Why more so than for books? I always delete books that way.

also for books, too.

Don't know exactly but when you delete items this way, entries created for them in index file still survive hence this lead to a bigger index file.

Maybe someone with more info will clarify this issue.

jondelfin · 03-12-2012, 12:20 PM

the bookmarklet code worked great - I also changed the setting so amazon no longer archives personal documents - for me not necessary as it is all calibre stuff - everything now works properly!
Thanks again - especially for the javascript!!

03-11-2012, 05:19 PM	#1
jondelfin Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 610 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 2, 3, 4T	Cannot delete periodicals on K4 Touch Each day I have Calibre compile daily newspapers etc and send then to my kindle 4 touch. This works fine, but they pile up and I cannot seem to delete them!! When I touch and hold on the periodical in the home page, no sub menu comes up [delete etc] like it does for items like books. On the K3, and K4 NT it put the older ones in the archives folder as new ones came in. Has anyone else observed this - not a big big deal as i just delete them once a week from my computer - just curious

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.

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03-11-2012, 08:05 PM	#3
mikeschr Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 60 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Portland Device: Scribe, Oasis, Clara	There's another thread about this here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=161544 Basically, you have to delete them from your Archived Items first before you can delete them using the interface on the Touch.

03-12-2012, 12:12 AM	#4
jondelfin Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 610 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 2, 3, 4T	Excellent replies. At least for now there is a workaround / they were mostly newspapers which i do not need to archive anyway. Thanks again!

03-12-2012, 04:43 AM	#5
thomass Wizard Posts: 1,669 Karma: 2300001 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Türkiye Device: Kindle 5.3.7	you can use this bookmarklet to batch delete them from your archive

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Why more so than for books? I always delete books that way.

03-12-2012, 12:20 PM	#10
jondelfin Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 610 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 2, 3, 4T	the bookmarklet code worked great - I also changed the setting so amazon no longer archives personal documents - for me not necessary as it is all calibre stuff - everything now works properly! Thanks again - especially for the javascript!!

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