Getting rid of cluttered Archived shelf...

[dkperez]

On my Nook Color I read a lot of library books. When done, I delete them. Works fine.

EXCEPT, I still have all sorts of junk on the Archived shelf. For example, I read Karin Slaughter's "A Faint Cold Fear" months ago, deleted the book using Calibre, and got rid of the book on the PC disk. Nothing shows up in My Files, but there's STILL a cover in Archived...

Unlike the other shelves, I have no "Edit" button on this shelf, can't change the content, and can't delete the shelf...

There are ALSO other covers on the Archived shelf, things I believe my wife downloaded from B&N, read and got rid of. BUT they STILL persist on the Archived shelf with a "New" banner on them.....

HOW do I get rid of all this junk?

[geertm]

Originally Posted by dkperez

On my Nook Color I read a lot of library books. When done, I delete them. Works fine.

EXCEPT, I still have all sorts of junk on the Archived shelf. For example, I read Karin Slaughter's "A Faint Cold Fear" months ago, deleted the book using Calibre, and got rid of the book on the PC disk. Nothing shows up in My Files, but there's STILL a cover in Archived...

Unlike the other shelves, I have no "Edit" button on this shelf, can't change the content, and can't delete the shelf...

There are ALSO other covers on the Archived shelf, things I believe my wife downloaded from B&N, read and got rid of. BUT they STILL persist on the Archived shelf with a "New" banner on them.....

HOW do I get rid of all this junk?

B&N books must be deleted in your B&N libary on the B&N website. After deleting the books, sync your NC to delete them on the device.

[dkperez]

So, just to be sure I've got this....

I go to B&N and buy a book. Download it, read it, and eventually remove it from the Nook. It's still sitting on the disk of the PC in case I ever want to read it again, or my wife wants to kidnap my nook and put the book back on and read it..... My book storage is on a different disk than what ADE uses, so I delete the book from ADE and it no longer knows anything about the book.

I go to the B&N site, and in my library I "Archive" the book. It's not active any more, just sitting in the archive at B&N.

This morning, I connected the nook to the PC started ADE, and it showed a couple books that were "missing". So, I deleted them from the nook. This got rid of a couple things that were "Archived" on the nook. Then, I disconnected the nook, and went in and looked at the Archived shelf. Everything else was still there.

So, I turned on the wi-fi on the nook, went into the library, and hit the "refresh" button. Everything's STILL there.

So, are you telling me that to get rid of books I want to NOT have any sign of on the nook, I have to go the B&N website and actually DELETE them from my library, not just archive them there? Does this mean if I ever want the book again, that I can't download it?

[geertm]

Originally Posted by dkperez

So, just to be sure I've got this....

I go to B&N and buy a book. Download it, read it, and eventually remove it from the Nook. It's still sitting on the disk of the PC in case I ever want to read it again, or my wife wants to kidnap my nook and put the book back on and read it..... My book storage is on a different disk than what ADE uses, so I delete the book from ADE and it no longer knows anything about the book.

I go to the B&N site, and in my library I "Archive" the book. It's not active any more, just sitting in the archive at B&N.

This morning, I connected the nook to the PC started ADE, and it showed a couple books that were "missing". So, I deleted them from the nook. This got rid of a couple things that were "Archived" on the nook. Then, I disconnected the nook, and went in and looked at the Archived shelf. Everything else was still there.

So, I turned on the wi-fi on the nook, went into the library, and hit the "refresh" button. Everything's STILL there.

So, are you telling me that to get rid of books I want to NOT have any sign of on the nook, I have to go the B&N website and actually DELETE them from my library, not just archive them there? Does this mean if I ever want the book again, that I can't download it?

If you archive a book it will stay in your B&N library and will be shown on your archive shelf (the book itself is deleted from your device). You can unarchive the book if you want to read it again.
If you delete a book it is removed from your B&N library and from the device. If you want to download it from B&N you will have to buy it again.

An alternative solution would be to not use the Wifi connection to sync with B&N, but to turn your Wifi off. Download your B&N books to your PC using Nook for PC. And to sideload only those books to your Nook that you want to see there.
(reset your Nook first to get rid of the B&N books in the hidden B&N partition).

[Magnus]

Originally Posted by dkperez

So, are you telling me that to get rid of books I want to NOT have any sign of on the nook, I have to go the B&N website and actually DELETE them from my library, not just archive them there? Does this mean if I ever want the book again, that I can't download it?

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. The Archive Shelf shows everything that B&N has archived for you. The only way to get rid of it is to throw the book away (delete it online).

Or you could download the book, store it on your hard drive, and delete it from you B&N archive online. If you ever wanted to read it in the future, you would have to side-load it onto your NC... but it would no longer be share-able or syncd with you other Nook apps/devices.

[dkperez]

OK, long as I know how this thing is going to work.... Boy, it's gonna get messy around here pretty quickly given the number of books we're going through!