Advice on Removing Books

Sydney's Mom · 09-09-2013, 06:40 PM

I have over 3000 books on my Fire, and, surprise surprise, it is not running very well. I thought about doing a Factory Reset, but I am concerned that all my Amazon books may come up on the carousel, and I will have to remove them one by one. On the other hand, if I just remove the content in the books and docs folders, will that clear the memory if I then do a reset? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Sydney's Mom · 09-10-2013, 06:15 PM

Well, lots of views but no advice, so here are my results. Hooking the kindle up to my computer and cleaning out books didn't get rid of them (I don't understand it, either). I reset after I cleaned them out, and they were still there. So, I did a factory reset. Then, I created a virtual library in Calibre that had all my non-kindle books. About 4,000. I limited myself to the first book in a series, a couple books by an author and books I had truly been itching to read (I forgot about Redme, Flaming Alphabet, even Gone Girl). Took a couple hours, but my kindle is like new!! BTW, my fear, that all of my kindle books would be on the carousel, did not come true. Funny thing is, books I have deleted out of my kindle library (put them in trash, so I could get them back if I wished) all show up! Weird.

Barbara1955 · 10-01-2013, 04:17 AM

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You can get rid of them by clearing the cache of your kindle reader app, under Settings--Applications.
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Advice I was given earlier in the year to get rid of ebooks I side loaded they kept going int the DOCs files It worked for me maybe it will help you.

No clue why you fire is slow mine is maxed out still runs fine.

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09-09-2013, 06:40 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	Advice on Removing Books I have over 3000 books on my Fire, and, surprise surprise, it is not running very well. I thought about doing a Factory Reset, but I am concerned that all my Amazon books may come up on the carousel, and I will have to remove them one by one. On the other hand, if I just remove the content in the books and docs folders, will that clear the memory if I then do a reset? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

09-10-2013, 06:15 PM	#2
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	Well, lots of views but no advice, so here are my results. Hooking the kindle up to my computer and cleaning out books didn't get rid of them (I don't understand it, either). I reset after I cleaned them out, and they were still there. So, I did a factory reset. Then, I created a virtual library in Calibre that had all my non-kindle books. About 4,000. I limited myself to the first book in a series, a couple books by an author and books I had truly been itching to read (I forgot about Redme, Flaming Alphabet, even Gone Girl). Took a couple hours, but my kindle is like new!! BTW, my fear, that all of my kindle books would be on the carousel, did not come true. Funny thing is, books I have deleted out of my kindle library (put them in trash, so I could get them back if I wished) all show up! Weird.

10-01-2013, 04:17 AM	#3
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	03-22-2013, 11:45 AM #11 Dragle Junior Member Dragle began at the beginning. Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: USA Device: Kindle 3, Kindle Fire orig + HD8.9, Kindle PW You can get rid of them by clearing the cache of your kindle reader app, under Settings--Applications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advice I was given earlier in the year to get rid of ebooks I side loaded they kept going int the DOCs files It worked for me maybe it will help you. No clue why you fire is slow mine is maxed out still runs fine.

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