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THEY'VE FINALLY SORTED MANAGE MY KINDLE!!!
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Patti (baconater)
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Jul 06, 2014 04:50AM
We have tick boxes!!!
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But tick boxes, Mike!Tick boxes!!
Lynda, Patti is talking about the 'Manage My Kindle' section on the Amazon website...
Don't think I've ever been there
How do you manage your kindle the Nosemanny???
Er, I don't?1. Download a book
2. Read it
3. There is no 3
I don't need no kindle wrangling!
Loving being The Nosemanny btw :)
Yup, I do the same. Perhaps Patti's got a gazillion books on hers, though.
Hehe.Hereafter known as The Nosemanny.
I don't have a gazillion books. I have a gazillion and three books.
I have a Nexus7. It just does what you want it to, because it's a fully functional android. Amazon restricted various operating system functions in the kindle to try and stop people going outside amazon for purchases or apps. That is the ONLY reason I didn't buy a Kindle, because I hate that kind of manipulation of consumer choice.
I have no idea how your rant relates to manage my kindle, Pete but I hope you feel better for it. :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I have no idea how your rant relates to manage my kindle, Pete but I hope you feel better for it. :)"It's just that I don't need tick boxes, whatever they are or do. And thanks, Patti, for the inopportune opportunity - having a rant does make me feel better!
Thing is, I've never felt beholden to Amazon for my downloads. I've downloaded from oodles of places. The reason I chose and keep choosing kindles is cuz they're the the best device to read from, in my opinion.
I love my iPad but would I lie on my tummy on a sun bed reading from one for hours?
Not on your nelly.
I'm afraid I don't manage my Kindle very well either. I download, read then send them to the archive. Simples;@)
I have now read this thread slowly, and realised that 'Manage my Kindle' is a webpage under one's Amazon account. Patti, I still don't see what the jubilation is all about, unless you were being sarcastic. The page only shows amazon purchases/apps, and does less than you can do with a file management app (like explorer in windows). So why on earth would you want to remotely 'manage' your kindle? I assume kindle tablet lets you delete, move or restore purchases in the same way that the kindle app on a nexus does? (And I expect there's some little sneak hiding in there that runs off and tells amazon what I've done anyway, so I can't think it's even to let amazon know what you've got stored or archived back in your account.)But talking of management (says he in a vain attempt to stay on topic)whilst I am yet to reach that stage, what do people do with their 'read' ebooks when they run out of space?
Save them to computer and delete from tablet?
Delete and trust amazon will still have a copy if you want to read it again?
Just delete and not care if you can't retrieve it?
Pete, try having like 800 free books you no longer want and need to delete from your account (which is only possible via that page). Then trying doing it the old way. Waste like 5hours of your life waiting for it to re-load and put you back to the start....That old system was painul. So. So. Painful.
PS. All my 'used' books are in the cloud which is where everything I've bought via Amazon or sent via email and archived is. It will stay there forever. You can check your cloud from any device at any time and re-download it via wifi or 3g
Philip (sarah) wrote: "I'm afraid I don't manage my Kindle very well either. I download, read then send them to the archive. Simples;@)"Philip - you forgot to mention that like all faithful goodreads members, you Review, then send them to archive !!!
Philip (sarah) wrote: "I'm afraid I don't manage my Kindle very well either. I download, read then send them to the archive. Simples;@)"SIMPLES.
OH Sarah, I just had images of you as a Meerkat
Funny that. I just thought of throwing a meerkat at her. One of those plush ones, of course. :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Funny that. I just thought of throwing a meerkat at her. One of those plush ones, of course. :)"
I've got Sergei and Oleg is on the way!
Edited to add: not that you can throw at Sarah!
I guess I'm a bad little meerkat Pete as I actually review only a tiny proportion of the books I read ;@0Mainly the ones that have blown me away!
That just makes me jealous, Katy.Sarah would probably give it to Holly, anyway.
Pete, everything I've downloaded is also backed up in calibre.
Elle wrote: "Pete, try having like 800 free books you no longer want and need to delete from your account (which is only possible via that page). Then trying doing it the old way. Waste like 5hours of your life..."I just bulk select the ones I want to remove or archive and then hit the button. They're still in my cloud/ account so they can be retrieved. If you delete them from your account, as you say, presumably if you download it again you pay twice? My memory's not that good, especially when publishers change cover designs each edition, I'm likely to buy twice when browsing my favourite authors. I do that often at car boot sales - the curse of two-word titles, they all sound similar and you remember the cover more than the title.
And talking of cloud storage, do readers, or computer users trust them implicitly? There are many threads on other sites discussing this issue, many predicting when (not if) the crash comes, it will be catastrophic. Personally I would only ever use cloud storage as a backup of a backup. I have 3 copies of all my important data, books, photos, artwork etc. 2 on separate hard drives, 1 on dvd. Monthly. (So I've actually got dozens of copies of older stuff on disk).
