Migrating collections from Kindle Keyboad to new model - Page 2

Cath · 11-04-2014, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by krazy4katz

My collections on my KK migrated automatically when I turned on the Voyage. I haven't filled them up yet. Most of the books are still in the cloud. I have noticed a few errors, but they might have been mine. For example, having a book in an "unread" collection when it should be in a "read" collection.

Cath, maybe if you turn on your KK and your Voyage and sync the Voyage with the cloud it will work?

Nah, I tried that

I mailed Amazon, and they confirmed that there's no way to get your KK collections onto the new kindles. Which doesn't quite fit with your experience, but oh well...

What confuses me is that some of my really old collections showed up, just not the current ones.

Josieb1 · 11-04-2014, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Cath

What confuses me is that some of my really old collections showed up, just not the current ones.

They used to have a process that imported collections. I think they got rid of that when they introduced Cloud Collections. It maybe that the collections that showed up were from that process and any that didn't show up were those you created after they turned that process off. Maybe the ones that showed were saved in the Cloud. I know it doesn't help you but it makes a certain sense.

Cath · 11-04-2014, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Josieb1

They used to have a process that imported collections. I think they got rid of that when they introduced Cloud Collections. It maybe that the collections that showed up were from that process and any that didn't show up were those you created after they turned that process off. Maybe the ones that showed were saved in the Cloud. I know it doesn't help you but it makes a certain sense.

That does make sense - and it while it doesn't help practically, having it make sense helps me feel better

Thanks.

Josieb1 · 11-04-2014, 06:23 AM

Does this help you, I posted it on another thread. It also works for books in Amazon's cloud,

If you sideload books, i.e via USB or calibre there is a quick way to add to a collection. I loaded 135 Christmas stories yesterday to my new PW2 (yes i'm sad) and I didn't want to email them all to Amazon so I loaded via Calibre.

I then created the collection and selected Add/Remove.
I sorted the list of books to select from by Recent.
I then selected Add all on this page from the menu button. This loads 10 books in one go (the whole page) with only 1 pop up message saying I am adding books that won't sync with the cloud.
I then swiped to the next page.
On the page with more books that I wanted in the collection I added them all then unticked the ones I didn't want.

This way I had 13 pop up messages instead of 135!

badgoodDeb · 11-04-2014, 01:55 PM

@Josieb1: Very good! Thanks!

krazy4katz · 11-04-2014, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josieb1

They used to have a process that imported collections. I think they got rid of that when they introduced Cloud Collections. It maybe that the collections that showed up were from that process and any that didn't show up were those you created after they turned that process off. Maybe the ones that showed were saved in the Cloud. I know it doesn't help you but it makes a certain sense.

Very confusing because I made all my collections on my KK. I never did anything with the cloud as far as I know, but they just downloaded automatically when I turned on the KV. Difficult to follow all these software iterations.

shalym · 11-05-2014, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by krazy4katz

Very confusing because I made all my collections on my KK. I never did anything with the cloud as far as I know, but they just downloaded automatically when I turned on the KV. Difficult to follow all these software iterations.

I believe the collections from pre-cloud collections devices (K3, K4NT) are only synced if you have syncing turned on, or at least annotation syncing turned on for your account.

Shari

nynaevelan · 11-05-2014, 12:27 PM

At the time Amazon turned on Cloud Collections they turned off collections importing on all your other devices. Whatever your collections were at that time will be what will be uploaded to any new Cloud Collections devices that you add to your account. This is only done the first time you add a device, but it is done on all new devices.

For some this can be quite frustrating because their servers retains any and all collections on your account from the time they first implemented collections. And a CS Rep told me at this time there is no way to get rid of them from their servers.

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11-04-2014, 06:23 AM	#19
Josieb1 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,089 Karma: 18051062 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: UK Device: Kindle Scribe, Coloursoft, PW SE, Kindle 6, Kobo Libra 2, Clara BW	Does this help you, I posted it on another thread. It also works for books in Amazon's cloud, If you sideload books, i.e via USB or calibre there is a quick way to add to a collection. I loaded 135 Christmas stories yesterday to my new PW2 (yes i'm sad) and I didn't want to email them all to Amazon so I loaded via Calibre. I then created the collection and selected Add/Remove. I sorted the list of books to select from by Recent. I then selected Add all on this page from the menu button. This loads 10 books in one go (the whole page) with only 1 pop up message saying I am adding books that won't sync with the cloud. I then swiped to the next page. On the page with more books that I wanted in the collection I added them all then unticked the ones I didn't want. This way I had 13 pop up messages instead of 135!

11-04-2014, 01:55 PM	#20
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	@Josieb1: Very good! Thanks!

11-05-2014, 12:27 PM	#23
nynaevelan eBook Junkie Posts: 1,526 Karma: 1464018 Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle Fire 2020, Kindle PW2	At the time Amazon turned on Cloud Collections they turned off collections importing on all your other devices. Whatever your collections were at that time will be what will be uploaded to any new Cloud Collections devices that you add to your account. This is only done the first time you add a device, but it is done on all new devices. For some this can be quite frustrating because their servers retains any and all collections on your account from the time they first implemented collections. And a CS Rep told me at this time there is no way to get rid of them from their servers.

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