
Or maybe you’re very aware that a special someone is going to be looking over your shoulder as you browse your library and you don’t want to be that person who only has two or three books on their device.ĭon’t beat yourself up over it, just head to your Amazon digital content library and reload the titles you’re missing. Of course, now you’re looking at your newly scrubbed Kindle and feeling more regret than the central character of a Killers song (are The Killers even still a thing?…hmmm). All those samples, all those abandoned books, gone! Step 3: Never Trust a Person Who Doesn’t Have Books That’s it! Now when you browse your library in Downloaded mode you’ll only see those titles on your Kindle that you want there. Click OK to confirm that you know you’re not deleting these forever, just banishing them from your current Kindle.Open the menu and choose the Remove from Device option.Select your TBD collection and switch to Downloaded.In your Kindle’s library, select Collections from the drop down menu (it says My Items by default).Repeat until you pass out or get distracted by something shiny in your TBR list.
Select Add to Collection and choose the collection you created earlier. Press the three dot icon in the bottom right of the cover you want to delete. Switch to Downloaded to see the titles on your device. Once you’ve created your new collection, head over to your Kindle’s library to add the rest of the titles from cover view. Once you’re done adding from the list, press Done. It means that you’ll have less sifting to do in your main library. Heck, if you can add any to the list, do it now. If you can remember what titles you want to delete without looking at covers, do so here. Switch to Downloaded so that you’re dealing with the titles currently loaded on your Kindle. Name it appropriately (I use TBD) and your Kindle will take you to a list of titles. Open the main menu and select Create a New Collection from the bottom of the list. To add your Kindle titles to a collection, first you have to have a collection! Yeah, it’s an extra step, but then I know everything in there is destined for the digital shredder and I won’t suddenly find myself ten pages into the first chapter thinking “oh, maybe I should switch over to this right now.” That’s why I lump all of my “to be deleted” into a special collection. The hardest part isn’t selecting what books to delete, it’s actually making it to the end of your TBR list without getting distracted by something shiny.
But you’re not here because you only have one title to expunge, are you?