Please Check your Latest Update... see Whats NEW!!

Barbara1955 · 03-15-2018, 07:16 PM

On my PW3 Whats NEW ... E-Books Vanish after 1 Year you have to Re-Download them! That's Crazy!!

JSWolf · 03-15-2018, 07:22 PM

Where did you find this out?

Barbara1955 · 03-15-2018, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Where did you find this out?

I Read Whats New after my PW Updated... duh

jhowell · 03-15-2018, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbara1955

I Read Whats New after my PW Updated... duh

What firmware version?

Barbara1955 · 03-15-2018, 08:35 PM

hummm don't know what Update it was but go to Settings>Advance Options>Storage Management>Quick Archive....

Whats the sense in Buying Kindles with More Storage IF the device is going to Wipe them out after a year? Which is the Longest you can set this for.

binaryhermit · 03-15-2018, 08:38 PM

I'm pretty sure that this isn't a setting per se, it's a way to semi-manually free space. Either way, it's not listed on "What's new" for 5.9.4.

jhowell · 03-15-2018, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbara1955

hummm don't know what Update it was but go to Settings>Advance Options>Storage Management>Quick Archive....

Whats the sense in Buying Kindles with More Storage IF the device is going to Wipe them out after a year? Which is the Longest you can set this for.

Ummm, no.

Quick Archive only deletes books from your storage if you press the "Remove" button on the bottom. It doesn't do anything automatically.

Barbara1955 · 03-15-2018, 08:57 PM

When you open You got 4 choices 1 month>3 months> 6 months or 1 Year... No Option for NEVER! So that means you Have to re-download Everything Every year!!

heck You might as well take it back to Factory clean the HD/Storage & re-set it up sheesh. What the point in getting a Kindle with More Storage then....

jhowell · 03-15-2018, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbara1955

When you open You got 4 choices 1 month>3 months> 6 months or 1 Year... No Option for NEVER! So that means you Have to re-download Everything Every year!!

Not true. Those are the choices, but it is not automatic! You must press the REMOVE button for anything to happen and it is a one time event.

HLS · 03-15-2018, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbara1955

On my PW3 Whats NEW ... E-Books Vanish after 1 Year you have to Re-Download them! That's Crazy!!

You can fix that is a setting on your kindle but it is kinda stupid if you have the 32GB. Its a good feature if you have the 4GB and have too many books

HarryT · 03-16-2018, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Barbara1955

When you open You got 4 choices 1 month>3 months> 6 months or 1 Year... No Option for NEVER! So that means you Have to re-download Everything Every year!!

This is completely wrong. Those are the filtering option that apply IF YOU PRESS THE REMOVE BUTTON. There is no automatic removal.

newkindlefun · 03-16-2018, 09:00 AM

Even if it were automatic, I see no problem with it if you enable it for yourself. It seems quite handy and useful to free up space by removing books you haven't touched in a year or however long you set it to. OP makes it sound like the end of the world. Wow, redownloading an ebook, so hard.

GlenBarrington · 03-16-2018, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by newkindlefun

Even if it were automatic, I see no problem with it if you enable it for yourself. It seems quite handy and useful to free up space by removing books you haven't touched in a year or however long you set it to. OP makes it sound like the end of the world. Wow, redownloading an ebook, so hard.

Well, some people want to carry every book they own with them at all times. I wouldn't, but that's me. An auto delete WOULD be inconvenient for them.

newkindlefun · 03-16-2018, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

Well, some people want to carry every book they own with them at all times. I wouldn't, but that's me. An auto delete WOULD be inconvenient for them.

That sounds like hoarder behavior to me. But they'd never make it automatic without user consent, anyway.

supermighty · 03-16-2018, 09:34 AM

This option looks scary. It wasn't clear to me when I first looked that it only would remove the books _if_ I pressed the Remove button.

03-15-2018, 07:16 PM	#1
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,455 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	Please Check your Latest Update... see Whats NEW!! On my PW3 Whats NEW ... E-Books Vanish after 1 Year you have to Re-Download them! That's Crazy!!

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Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,455 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	hummm don't know what Update it was but go to Settings>Advance Options>Storage Management>Quick Archive.... Whats the sense in Buying Kindles with More Storage IF the device is going to Wipe them out after a year? Which is the Longest you can set this for.

03-15-2018, 08:38 PM	#6
binaryhermit Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,732 Karma: 20469902 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Lockport, IL Device: Kindle PW4, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I'm pretty sure that this isn't a setting per se, it's a way to semi-manually free space. Either way, it's not listed on "What's new" for 5.9.4.

03-15-2018, 08:57 PM	#8
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,455 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	When you open You got 4 choices 1 month>3 months> 6 months or 1 Year... No Option for NEVER! So that means you Have to re-download Everything Every year!! heck You might as well take it back to Factory clean the HD/Storage & re-set it up sheesh. What the point in getting a Kindle with More Storage then....

03-16-2018, 09:00 AM	#12
newkindlefun Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 91298 Join Date: Apr 2016 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 3rd gen (2015)	Even if it were automatic, I see no problem with it if you enable it for yourself. It seems quite handy and useful to free up space by removing books you haven't touched in a year or however long you set it to. OP makes it sound like the end of the world. Wow, redownloading an ebook, so hard.

03-16-2018, 09:34 AM	#15
supermighty Groupie Posts: 165 Karma: 6384806 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walled City Device: Kobo Libre 2	This option looks scary. It wasn't clear to me when I first looked that it only would remove the books _if_ I pressed the Remove button.