My Clippings is a log of the annotations you make on the Paperwhite. It is not something coming from the cloud or stored there. Its purpose is to give you a way to export your annotations to a file so you can re-use them (e.g. copy paste to another document on your computer).
If you have your content in Recent order, and you don't open My Clippings, it will eventually float down further in the item list and won't show up on Page 1. You can also set the item type to 'Books' and it won't show up in that list (My Clippings is considered of type 'Docs'). Or you can use Collections to organize the content, and perhaps use one of those collections to tag content that you rarely access and want to keep from appearing in the top level listing.
The only way to stop it from appearing is to stop annotating. If you do a lot of annotating, and truly do not have a use for My Clippings, delete it from time to time as it will grow and (because the Paperwhite creates a content index for the content on the device, including My Clippings) it can eventually degrade performance and take up space you might want to use for something else.
This is kind of a legacy feature that was present in the first Kindle and it has not been updated since then. It really needs an overhaul, but a lot of people rely on it, despite its limitations.
If you have your content in Recent order, and you don't open My Clippings, it will eventually float down further in the item list and won't show up on Page 1. You can also set the item type to 'Books' and it won't show up in that list (My Clippings is considered of type 'Docs'). Or you can use Collections to organize the content, and perhaps use one of those collections to tag content that you rarely access and want to keep from appearing in the top level listing.
The only way to stop it from appearing is to stop annotating. If you do a lot of annotating, and truly do not have a use for My Clippings, delete it from time to time as it will grow and (because the Paperwhite creates a content index for the content on the device, including My Clippings) it can eventually degrade performance and take up space you might want to use for something else.
This is kind of a legacy feature that was present in the first Kindle and it has not been updated since then. It really needs an overhaul, but a lot of people rely on it, despite its limitations.