07-01-2020, 04:05 AM | #1 |
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whose bright idea was it?
To add the "permanently delete book/doc" on the Kindle?
I have been deleting docs thinking they were deleted from my library and now I see I can do it with books too? Seriously? It is so easy to accidentally delete a book this way. Go back to needing to delete books and docs by the website, or at least have a setting that allows kindle deleting to be hidden. |
07-01-2020, 09:07 AM | #2 |
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You get a pop up that asks you to confirm, so you can't "accidentally" delete the book as long as you read that message and hit cancel.
If you select Delete after the warning, it's not accidental, it's a deliberate choice. |
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07-01-2020, 10:04 AM | #3 |
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Yeah, I can see some confusion and accidents resulting from it myself. I'm not going to be using the new feature when it pops up. It may have by now on my paperwhite and I may not have noticed yet.
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07-01-2020, 01:55 PM | #5 |
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Also DO NOT RELY ON THE so called CLOUD.
Use Download to PC and back up everything. Then it doesn't matter if you "Delete". I practically only delete spam emails. I've hardly deleted anything since 1995. Storage sizes grow faster than my documents. |
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07-01-2020, 02:46 PM | #6 | |
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Last night when I saw it available again for both books and docs, I didn't test it to find out if there was a pop-up. Although, I accidentally sent the same doc twice, so it was then when I saw the pop-up. Before that I was afraid to even think about selecting it. I felt much better about it. The initial post was sent before seeing the popup, but still.... |
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07-01-2020, 02:49 PM | #7 | |
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Plus I have a Goodreads account and it seems that only books purchased through Amazon can be updated through the Kindle to Goodreads. |
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07-02-2020, 02:20 AM | #8 |
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This could be useful if you get free books and they turn out to be duds. Also for Docs that you don’t need around any more. Or for public library borrows that might be there but not really available for download. Apart from that I don’t think I’d delete books I’d actually paid for.
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07-02-2020, 10:29 AM | #9 |
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Okay, I'll confess, it was me. I made the suggestion to Jeff one day over coffee. I still think the suggestion was fine but the implementation was off. The two commands should be one after the other. The new, permanently delete, should be the last item on the menu.
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07-02-2020, 01:09 PM | #10 |
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True in most cases... but the only worry here is Amazon (accidentally or on purpose) deleting your stuff, which they can do remotely anyway.
If the Amazon cloud actually goes down or disappears, you'll know: a huge chunk of the Internet's sites would stop working. By this point, AWS is a foundational service (just one run by a commercial provider). |
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07-02-2020, 07:59 PM | #12 |
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"Remove Download" deletes from the kindle. Here is an example from my Oasis.
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07-02-2020, 10:33 PM | #13 |
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I think Samples are different now as well. IIRC, you’d choose Remove and then it would ask if you wanted to remove from device and also from cloud. Now there’s Remove Download and Remove From Library. Not sure it would not have worked to share terms (Remove From Library is effectively the same as Permanently Delete), but whatever.
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07-03-2020, 01:14 AM | #14 |
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All mine Fire 10 does is Delete from the device …. NOT All devices Not from my Amazon Contents … just from the Fire 10 …
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07-03-2020, 04:54 AM | #15 |
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Re-Purchased???? I can understanding wanting to delete books from your library so they don't show up on devices or what not,, but surely amazon could have (like everyone else, I think,) implemented a system that would remember in the back end you own the title, in case you ever decide to re-add it. That's just crazy.
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