Kindle not indexing books? - Page 3

crossi · 03-14-2018, 12:29 PM

What use is indexing? Is there a way to turn it off?

HarryT · 03-14-2018, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by crossi

What use is indexing? Is there a way to turn it off?

Indexing is what allows the Kindle to quickly search books, or even your entire library. I am not aware of any way to turn it off. May I ask why you'd want to do so?

spindlegirl · 03-14-2018, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by crossi

What use is indexing? Is there a way to turn it off?

What Harry said. Sometimes I need to search for a phrase in a book, or on the home page, see if I already put a particular title on my Kindle. If I search for "Oliver Twist" and don't see it there, then I will download it.

Everytime I sideload a new book on my Kindle, I plug it in for about ten minutes and it seems to hasten the indexing.

crossi · 03-15-2018, 07:32 AM

I've never used search so for me the indexing feature is wasted space and computing use. I've over a thousand books on my kindle but only 11 pages on my home screen organized into collections. It makes it easy enough to find the book I want. Given a choice between having an index and having hierological collections I would much prefer the second. Not being given a choice I still have no use for the index and would as soon get rid of it. I've occasionally while trying to jump to a page of my home screen had the kindle start to do a search for "10" instead of going to page 10. There doesn't seem a way to say stop I don't want to search that. You just have to wait. Annoying.

Little.Egret · 03-15-2018, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by crossi

I've never used search so for me the indexing feature is wasted space and computing use. I've over a thousand books on my kindle but only 11 pages on my home screen organized into collections. It makes it easy enough to find the book I want. Given a choice between having an index and having hierological collections I would much prefer the second. Not being given a choice I still have no use for the index and would as soon get rid of it. I've occasionally while trying to jump to a page of my home screen had the kindle start to do a search for "10" instead of going to page 10. There doesn't seem a way to say stop I don't want to search that. You just have to wait. Annoying.

It does that if there isn't a page 10.

Forcing a restart with the power switch can be faster than waiting for the search to complete.

The kindle developers subforum may have a hack for noindexing

reinsley · 03-16-2018, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by spindlegirl

I plug it in for about ten minutes and it seems to hasten the indexing.

I noticed that switch off ( 6 sec push) the KPPW stops the indexing.
The indexing is runnning while KPPW displays a screensaver.

HLS · 03-25-2018, 07:20 AM

Is your storage maxed out?

reinsley · 03-31-2018, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by kcladyz

Is your storage maxed out?

Is your question directed to me ?

HLS · 04-07-2018, 06:13 PM

sometimes rebooting the device works for me. I seem to have issues with downloading audible and I have to do this

AlanHK · 02-23-2022, 08:32 PM

Just to show this is an evergreen topic: I reset my PW3 and restored the 900 books I had on it two weeks ago. Just searched for a name and found the current book was unindexed.
Did an "xzxzxzxz" search and found that 484 books still unindexed. And battery was at 12%, so seems it had (sensibly) decided not to to spend any power on indexing. Plugged it in to a power socket (not PC) and now it's indexing at 1-2 books per minute, (asleep or awake), should be done by tonight.

02-23-2022, 08:32 PM	#40
AlanHK Guru Posts: 668 Karma: 929286 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: PW-3, iPad, Android phone	Just to show this is an evergreen topic: I reset my PW3 and restored the 900 books I had on it two weeks ago. Just searched for a name and found the current book was unindexed. Did an "xzxzxzxz" search and found that 484 books still unindexed. And battery was at 12%, so seems it had (sensibly) decided not to to spend any power on indexing. Plugged it in to a power socket (not PC) and now it's indexing at 1-2 books per minute, (asleep or awake), should be done by tonight. Last edited by AlanHK; 02-24-2022 at 06:35 AM.

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03-14-2018, 12:29 PM	#31
crossi Guru Posts: 992 Karma: 12000001 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Wahington U.S. Device: kindle	What use is indexing? Is there a way to turn it off?

03-15-2018, 07:32 AM	#34
crossi Guru Posts: 992 Karma: 12000001 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Wahington U.S. Device: kindle	I've never used search so for me the indexing feature is wasted space and computing use. I've over a thousand books on my kindle but only 11 pages on my home screen organized into collections. It makes it easy enough to find the book I want. Given a choice between having an index and having hierological collections I would much prefer the second. Not being given a choice I still have no use for the index and would as soon get rid of it. I've occasionally while trying to jump to a page of my home screen had the kindle start to do a search for "10" instead of going to page 10. There doesn't seem a way to say stop I don't want to search that. You just have to wait. Annoying.

03-25-2018, 07:20 AM	#37
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,028 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	Is your storage maxed out?

04-07-2018, 06:13 PM	#39
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,028 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	sometimes rebooting the device works for me. I seem to have issues with downloading audible and I have to do this

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