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January 18, 2021 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

For those of you who have downloaded the blog’s free app to read the blog posts on your Fire Tablet or Android-enabled smartphone (i.e., Samsung, Motorola) or tablet computer, I appreciate it: it’s an easy way to receive instant notifications of posts about free Kindle Books.

If you haven’t tried it yet – the app is free!

You can download and install the blog’s app (for free) from either the Amazon App store or the Google Play Store: it takes about 5 seconds to install and, unlike other apps, it doesn’t ask for any personally identifying items like your phone number, location, etc. The only permission it needs is an Internet or Wi-Fi connection.

To download and install it from the Amazon App store, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your web browser.

To download and install it from the Google Play store, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtgoogle into your web browser.

Have a great week!

Michael

 

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Kindle Reset Instructions

January 14, 2021 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I am going to set this message up to go out every couple of months: if you’ve seen it before and know what I’m talking about, or if you’re just plain ‘ole tired of seeing it don’t worry – I’ll be back with a new post soon.

There seems to be a Kindle problem for a lot of folks – that is, what do you need to do if (a) your Kindle or Fire Tablet freezes up, or (b) you’ve ordered a book, app or anything else and it never seems to download.

You may need to write this down, or try to memorize it, because if it happens to you I’m willing to bet you won’t remember unless you’ve reset your Kindle a few times!

If this happens to you, you will need to reboot your Kindle.

Here is how you reboot an e-Ink Kindle:

  1. Click the “Home” button to get back to your home screen.
  2. Click the “Menu” button, and select “Settings.”
  3. You will see several options, but “reboot” is not one of those options. Press the “Menu” button again.
  4. You will have several options, but choose and click the “Restart” button.
  5. Alternatively, some Kindles are different – say the Paperwhite. Use the same instructions for the Kindle Fire below.

Here is how you reboot a Fire Tablet:

  1. Press and hold the power button for 20 seconds, then release the power button.
  2. The Fire will turn off.
  3. After the Fire has turned off, press the power button once and release it to restart the Fire.

Once you reboot your Kindle or Fire Tablet, it could take about 1-2 minutes to reboot. Make sure your wireless is on, and the Kindle will go look in the Amazon store to see what is pending to be downloaded and viola! You should be back in business. If you ever need to restart your Kindle, I hope this helps!

Michael

 

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Kindle Unlimited Explained

January 6, 2021 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Amazon has a feature called Kindle Unlimited; in each day’s post, I have a line underneath each book title to let you know if a book is part of the Kindle Unlimited program or not.

However, I continue to receive quite a few emails each month from people asking me to explain Kindle Unlimited – so, what is it?

Basically, Kindle Unlimited is a program where for just $9.99 per month, you can read as much as you want from over 1 million Kindle books as well as listen to a little over 100,000 Audible audiobooks – as many or as few titles as you want for the $9.99 per month fee.  For those books on the blog that say “Yes” in red as being part of the program, if you are a Kindle Unlimited member you can read that book for free. As I type up this post a little more than 50% of all Kindle titles are in the program.

I wouldn’t categorize these offerings as a bunch of books you’ve never heard of, as there are a lot of bestsellers on the list. Some independent authors love it as it has allowed more people to check out their work (and buy their other titles), some independent authors absolutely hate it as it cuts into their royalty (i.e., salary), and there are other independent authors who refuse to enroll their books in the program. The author does get paid by Amazon for each page read, and there are many authors out there who earn more per month on the number of pages read than they do on actual book sales.

There are also quite a few magazines you can read for free with Kindle Unlimited. I read several of them from time-to-time on my Fire tablet.

You can participate with your Kindle, Fire Tablet, or Kindle reading app – yes, that includes your iPhone, Android phone, etc., and Amazon will let you try it for free for 30 days. If you don’t like it or not using all of the benefits of the program (and having read as many books as you possibly can in that 30 days) just cancel it before the 30 days or up and you won’t be charged.

I’m a member of Kindle Unlimited and I certainly get more than $9.99 per month of books to read: since my family reads a lot, also, we’re really saving a lot of money each month. You can check it out yourself if you click here.

Have fun trying out the free 30-day trial period!

Michael

 

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A Quick Reminder About Freebies

December 20, 2020 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick reminder – if I or anyone else tells you about a book being offered for free or discounted on the Amazon Kindle website and you are interested, please jump on it immediately. Don’t wait a few days or even a couple of hours, or you may see the book being offered for sale vs. what you thought was free! I’ve seen it happen many times over the years.

Why does that happen? Sometimes there is a glitch to the Amazon system, an author may have forgot to set the book’s promotion on the Amazon website, or who knows?

Bottom line here is don’t wait – log on to the website frequently (www.fkbt.com) or check your email shortly after 8:00 a.m. Central time for the daily digest if you are subscribed to the free daily email. Grab them now as once the book is yours, no matter if you paid nothing or $100 for a book, it is yours forever!

I should say something similar about books discounted to 99 cents: the author, for example, has told me their book(s) will be discounted for a particular day and I set the posts up in advance. The same issue that can cause titles to not be free can also apply to the discounting for a particular day. Please make sure you verify the pricing on the Amazon website before you click the “buy” button.

Hope that helps!

Michael

 

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Donate Your Used Kindle or Fire Tablet

November 9, 2020 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Seeing as how there were lots of people who upgraded to a new version of the Kindle or Fire tablet platform since Prime Day, I thought it would be a great idea to pass on this idea again….

Many times, I am asked by people what to do with an older Kindle or Fire tablet sitting around collecting dust because the owner either upgraded to a newer model or just doesn’t use it any more. My normal response is to check around with a local charity, such as a shelter or literacy group in the person’s area as I am sure one of them would appreciate a Kindle or other eBook reader.

If you have a used Kindle, how about donating to The Kindle Classroom Project? The Kindle Classroom Project was founded in 2011 by schoolteacher Mark Isero, and was started to promote the love and power of reading among high school students in Oakland and San Francisco, California in the USA. The program now serves over 2,500 students: students receive a Kindle and access to a growing library of approximately 2,200 books 24 hours a day.

You can check out their website and read more details / see pictures of students with their Kindles at j.mp/kindleclassroom – I’m impressed how big of a difference just one person like Mark can make! Scroll down to the bottom of this page and you will see lots of links on how a used Kindle is making a difference.

FKBT’s subscribers have donated quite a few used Kindles over the years and have made a difference!

If you would like to donate your used Kindle to The Kindle Classroom Project, just point your web browser to j.mp/donate-kindle for more information.

Also, if you know someone who has a used Kindle they are no longer using, why not pass along this information to them?

Have a great week!

Michael

 

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Your Unique Kindle Email Address

October 19, 2020 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I realized I haven’t sent out a tip lately…here’s a question I receive every now and then regarding your unique Kindle email address:

I have a kindle E-mail address, but where is it? How do I get to it?

You may already know, or maybe you don’t, each registered Kindle owner has their own unique youname@kindle.com email address, where you and others that you grant permission to beforehand can email material directly to your Kindle or Fire tablet. This could come in handy for sending Word documents, etc. from work for the “gotta read it” on the plane, but you can also use it as a method to transfer books to your Kindle.  Although I believe the “Send to Kindle” tool is easier to send things from your own computer, I would recommend the email option for friends and family to send things to your Kindle; you can see the instructions on using the “Send to Kindle” function if you click here.

One word of caution, however: unless you are using the WiFi application vs. the cellular option, Amazon will charge the Kindle account holder for each document emailed; I am not putting the price in here as it has changed a few times over the years (and I have no idea what they are charging now as I primarily use the Send to Kindle Feature). While these charges may not seem like much they can add up over time.

If you do not know your unique @kindle.com email address, it’s easy to find out: log into you Amazon.com account, and click on the “Your Content and Devices” link located in the dropdown menu. Underneath the “Devices” section will list each of the Kindles, Fire tablets, Echo / Alexa dvices, etc., registered to your account.  If you click on the gray square icon to the left of a Kindle or Fire tablet name (it is gray with three small black dots on it), you can see more information about the device as well as the unique @kindle.com email address to send material to each particular Kindle. If you do not like the email address assigned to you, experiment with it and find one you do like – the Amazon server will let you know if that unique @kindle.com email address is available to use.

I mentioned earlier you can have others you grant permission in advance to send material to your Kindle; if you click the “Preferences” menu item at the top of the page, then scroll way down to the section titled “Approved Personal Document E-Mail List,” you will also see the pre-authorized email addresses allowed. I would exercise caution with who you put on there, or the next thing you know your spouse or significant other will use that as a tool to send you reminders of chores to do, errands to run, or other emails!

Hope that helps, and have a great week-

Michael

 

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Loaning a Kindle Book

August 5, 2020 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Remember when you used to read paper books and after you had read one you would loan it to a friend to read?  Or, maybe they would loan you a book?  Amazon has a book lending feature for Kindle books you and your friends / family can take advantage of but, like most things in life, there are a couple of catches to this feature:

  • If you lend a book to someone, it can only be loaned for a 14 day period.
  • You can only loan a book once, and only once, so make sure you pick the “right” person to loan a book.
  • All books are not lendable, as there are many publishers who are blocking the feature in order to get an incremental dollar.
  • If you loan a book out to someone, you cannot read it on your Kindle at the same time (it disappears).

You can tell if a book is eligible for lending on the book’s detail page – just scroll down to the “Product Details” section on the Kindle book page.  There is a bold-faced legend called “Lending:” and it will tell you if the lending feature is enabled (it’s in the “Product Details”  section.

On the other hand, a couple of years ago I read the late Wayne Rogers’ book called Make Your Own Rules (I thought it was outstanding) and it does not support the lending feature: click here to see what I mean.  If you scroll down to the “Product Details” section of the book’s web page, “Lending” line item says “Not Enabled.”

How to Lend a Book

If you already own the book, you can go to the Manage Your Content and Devices section of the Amazon web page (you may need to sign in to your Amazon account again) and look at your Kindle orders.  Click on the icon underneath the “Actions” column next to each title (on my computer it is a small grey square with three dots about two-thirds of the way down): if the lending feature is enabled, you will see a button titled “Loan This Title” in the popup for each individual book book.

Alternatively, if you have purchased the book, go to the book’s page on the Amazon website: right above the title line, it will show you a box just above the titles name telling you when you purchased the book, and just below that line will be a “Loan This Title” text link for you to click.  If you want to lend the book to someone, initiate from either the Manage Your Content and Devices section of the Amazon website or on the book’s web page.

You don’t have to own a Kindle to be able to read a book that was loaned to you, as the feature is also available for people to read on the Kindle for PC or other Kindle applications.

After you click the Loan This Title button or text link, your browser will next open up a form to input the borrower’s name, email address, and a personal message within the email notification.  The recipient will be notified of the loan via the email address you input into the Amazon form.  The recipient has seven days to either accept or reject the loan: if the loan is not accepted after seven days, you will be able to loan it again or read it on your Kindle.  If the recipient already owns the book, or if the book isn’t available in their country due to copyright restrictions, the borrower cannot accept the loan; if that is the case, you will get the book back available to you after the seven day period.

Receiving a Book Loan

If you have received an email notification of a book loan (it will be titled “A Loaned Book For You”) and you accept it, you can download the book to your Kindle or the Kindle reading application such as the Kindle for PC or iPad.  After you press accept, you will have 14 days to complete the book.  After the 14 day period is over, the book will disappear from your Kindle: if you haven’t finished it yet and want to complete it, or read it again at a later date, you will have to purchase the book or have a different friend loan it to you.

Once you press accept, you will then be prompted to login to your Amazon account – in other words, the lender does not need to know your registered Kindle email address in order to loan you a book (my Amazon-registered email address is different than my main “correspondence” email address).

Once that is completed, you will then select the Kindle device to download the book: if you don’t have a Kindle or Kindle application, that’s okay as you will then be directed to the steps to download a free Kindle reading application (side note; pretty smart of Amazon in order to get more Kindle readers out there).

Just remember these dates and other items:

  • Once you receive a lending notification email, you have seven days to accept it.
  • Once you accept the loaned book, you have 14 days to complete it.
  • As a lender, you can only loan a title once – and once only – so if multiple people are interested in the same book make sure you loan it to the “right” person.
  • You can only loan books: magazines and newspapers are not eligible for the loaning program.

Here are some frequently asked questions on what you can and can’t do with the lending feature.  I can’t take credit for this part as it comes from the Amazon website.

As the lender, can I read the book while it is out on loan?

Once you initiate a Kindle book loan, you will not be able to read the book until the loan period has ended, after which your access will automatically be restored.

Once your notification has been sent, a reminder message will appear on the Home screen of your Kindle or Kindle reading app, indicating that the book is on loan and cannot be read until the loan has ended.

During the loan period the book will still remain visible in your Archived Items folder, but you will be unable to redownload the title.

Will I be notified before the book loan expires?

Yes. Three days before the end of the 14-day loan period we will send borrowers a courtesy reminder e-mail about the loan expiration.  Once the loan period has ended, an e-mail notification will be sent to both the book lender and borrower. The lender can then access the book again through their Archived Items and Manage Your Content and Devices.

The borrower will receive a notice on the Home screen of their device indicating that the loan has ended.  The borrower will still be able to view the title from their Archived Items folder as well, but selecting the title will bring up a reminder that the loan has ended and provide a link to purchase the item.

If the recipient is finished with the loaned book and wishes to return it, they can do so from the Your Orders section of Manage Your Kindle.  Here’s how:

  1. Click the icon symbol next to the loaned title and underneath the “Actions” header.
  2. Click the Delete this Title
  3. Click Yes in the pop-over window to confirm the return.

After initiating a return the reading rights will be restored to the owner of the book. The owner will also receive an e-mail confirmation of the return.

How do I view the status of my loan?

You can view the status of a Kindle book loan from the Manage Your Content and Devices page. Click on the icon next next to any title (and underneath the Actions column) to view more details about any book that you’ve loaned or borrowed.

If you’ve loaned out the book, you’ll see the loan date listed, as well as whether the loan is pending, the expiration date of an accepted loan, or the returned date.

Borrowers will be able to see how much longer a loan is available, or if it has ended.

What happens to my notes and highlights?

The lender’s notes and highlights are not visible to the borrower during a Kindle books loan. When the book is returned, the same notes and highlights will appear in the book as before the loan was initiated.

The borrower of a Kindle book loan is also able to make notes and highlights in loaned books. These will not be visible to the lender at the end of the loan period. If a borrower purchases the same title after the loan has ended, any notes and highlights made in the loaned book will be retained in the purchased version.

That’s all I have for now, and happy lending!

Michael

 

 

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Kindle Reset Instructions

July 27, 2020 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I am going to set this message up to go out every couple of months: if you’ve seen it before and know what I’m talking about, or if you’re just plain ‘ole tired of seeing it don’t worry – I’ll be back with a new post soon.

There seems to be a Kindle problem for a lot of folks – that is, what do you need to do if (a) your Kindle or Fire Tablet freezes up, or (b) you’ve ordered a book, app or anything else and it never seems to download.

You may need to write this down, or try to memorize it, because if it happens to you I’m willing to bet you won’t remember unless you’ve reset your Kindle a few times!

If this happens to you, you will need to reboot your Kindle.

Here is how you reboot an e-Ink Kindle:

  1. Click the “Home” button to get back to your home screen.
  2. Click the “Menu” button, and select “Settings.”
  3. You will see several options, but “reboot” is not one of those options. Press the “Menu” button again.
  4. You will have several options, but choose and click the “Restart” button.
  5. Alternatively, some Kindles are different – say the Paperwhite. Use the same instructions for the Kindle Fire below.

Here is how you reboot a Kindle Fire:

  1. Press and hold the power button for 20 seconds, then release the power button.
  2. The Fire will turn off.
  3. After the Fire has turned off, press the power button once and release it to restart the Fire.

Once you reboot your Kindle, it could take about 1-2 minutes to reboot. Make sure your wireless is on, and the Kindle will go look in the Amazon store to see what is pending to be downloaded and viola! You should be back in business. If you ever need to restart your Kindle, I hope this helps!

Michael

 

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Kindle Download Problems?

July 15, 2020 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Sometimes things just don’t download to your Kindle, you either get a partial download or it doesn’t download at all.  What can be frustrating is if you buy several Kindle books at one time, two of three may make it to your Kindle but one of them is “stuck.”  That happens to your blog subscriptions, too, and I regularly publish a tip on how to reset your Kindle (click here to see it).

The reset instructions might help you on a book, but what will you do if it doesn’t?  Of course, you could always contact Amazon’s Customer Service (they have done a great job the times I have had to call them) but why not try these steps first?

  • Check your battery: is it fully charged? I’m not trying to insult your intelligence with this action item but, really, did you check your battery strength?
  • Is your wireless connection turned on? Again, I am not trying to insult your intelligence, but this one happened to me – I ordered several books from the Amazon Kindle store from my computer (vs. the Kindle) in the morning, intending to start one of them when I had time to read during my lunch break at work.  I couldn’t find them (and I was really looking forward to starting one of them).  Then, I smacked myself on the side of the head when I realized the wireless wasn’t on.
  • Your Kindle may not be able to sync with the wireless connection. How many “bars” are you showing on the wireless or 3G signal strength?

 

The items above are not meant to be an exhaustive list but more of a quick-hit list for you to check as your situation might be different.

Hope that helps!

Michael

 

 

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Organizing Your Kindle Books Into Collections

July 9, 2020 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Over the past few years, I’ve posted this in some form or fashion a couple of times with the last time being in February of this year.  However, I’ve been asked about this topic many times over the last couple of weeks as we have a lot of new readers to this blog as well as people upgrading to new varieties of Kindles, so it’s obviously time to post this tip again and update where appropriate.

Today’s post is rather long and is about the “Collections” feature, and is broken up into two parts. The first section is a general review of what a collection is and how to establish them on your new Kindle – which might be handy to those of you who have upgraded from any previous version of Kindle on the market

Please note these instructions are for e-Ink Kindles only; I will post something similar for Fire tablets soon.

 

Collections – A Basic Primer and “How To”

Background

Your Kindle can organize the books and other content you have on it in a file folder system called “Collections,” which if you are unfamiliar with it think of the file structure in the “My Documents” folder on a Windows-based computer: you have your files organized by topic or whatever system you may use. You can do the same with your eBooks. The following is a mixture from the Amazon customer service website as well as my own observations and experiences.

I store all of my titles by genre – mysteries, science fiction, western, etc. – so I can see what is available when I am ready to start a new book.  I have over 400 unread books on my Kindle (no, I don’t think I have a problem) and organizing them by genre helps me keep it straight and I can quickly pick one out when I am ready to switch to a new genre.  You can use whatever system is easiest for you.

Creating Collections

If you store a lot of content on your Kindle, you can create collections to improve your organization. A collection is a category you can create on your Kindle Home screen: you can then move your books and other reading material from the Home screen to the collections you create and your Kindle will sort your content by collections after you create your first collection.  The following is how you can do it on a Kindle Paperwhite, but if you have another e-Ink Kindle the instructions are pretty much the same.  I will also point out there are several different ways to do it, and this tutorial is not meant to be the “only” way.

To create a collection:

  1. Select “Create New Collection” from the Home screen menu – you will need to tap the three vertical dots on the top right-hand of your screen to activate the menu, just below the time and battery status icon. Once the menu displays, tap “Create New Collection.”  Go ahead, I will wait…
  2. Enter a name for the collection by tapping the blank box once with your finger; tapping the blank box with your finger will display the keyboard where you can type away. Please note the first letter will be capitalized and the subsequent letters will be lowercase.  If you want all caps, you will need to press the “up” arrow button (just above “123” on the keyboard display) before each letter.  Also, if you want numbers of special characters (like &^#$), you will need to tap the “123” icon.
  3. Tap the “OK” icon when finished.

To rename or delete a collection:

  1. You will need to be on the screen viewing the listing of your books and not the home screen (you will need to be viewing all of your titles by “Collection” and not, for example, by “Title.”
  2. Highlight the collection name by placing your finger on the Collection name and holding it to have a new menu screen pop up.
  3. Select the desired action with the controller by tapping the option with you finger (i.e., “Rename” to change the name).
  4. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Note: Deleting a collection from your Kindle does not change the content stored on your device. Items previously placed into the collection that are stored on your Kindle will appear on the Home screen after the collection is deleted and you are sorting your books by anything other than Collections (i.e., by title or author).

To sort your book content by collection:

  1. Tap the Home icon.
  2. Swipe once from right to left to see the list of titles; alternatively, you can tap the “My Library” link on the top left.
  3. The menu item on the top far right (just under the search icon space) is how you sort your titles: your choices are “Recent, Title, Author, and Collection.” I don’t know what may be displayed on your Kindle, but tap one of those to see the four options.
  4. Select “Collection” from the four options by tapping it with your finger.

Managing Content in Your Collections

After you create one or more collections you wish to use for organizing your Kindle’s content, you’re ready to associate items on your Kindle with those collections. Here are a few handy collection features:

  • Collections are stored on Amazon: When you create a collection on a device, it will save your collection so it appears in Archived Items on other devices registered to your Amazon.com account. This allows you to transfer collections across registered Kindles.
  • Books are associated with collections until removed: If you add a book to a collection on your Kindle and then delete the book from your device, it remains associated with that collection in Archive Items. If you download the book again, it will automatically appear in the appropriate collection on your Home screen.
  • Books can appear in more than one collection: You can associate a single book or other item from your library with multiple collections if you wish. For example, I have a collection for Kindle Unlimited titles I haven’t read yet – it reminds me to get to it – and I also put them in the appropriate genre such as “Mysteries & Thrillers.”
  • Collections don’t change device or Archive Items content: If you delete a book from a collection or delete an entire collection from your Kindle, it does not change the actual items saved on your Kindle or in your Archive Items on Amazon. When you delete a collection from your Kindle, any downloaded items from that collection will appear the Home screen instead of in the collection. In other words, if you want to delete a specific book, just delete it like you would any other book from your Kindle (although it will still be listed in the cloud in your collection).

To add or remove books from collections items:

  1. Highlight the collection name on the Home screen.
  2. When the new menu item pops up, select “Add/Remove Items”
  3. Select “Add/Remove Items” with the controller.
  4. Highlight and select a title you wish to add or remove. Items currently in the collection will display a check mark to the right of the title. If you have hundreds of books like I do on my Kindle and stored in Amazon’s archives, this method is a pain in the neck!  See my alternative method for removing items within a Collection in the “Removing or Reorganizing Content in a Collection” section below.
  5. Select “Done” at the bottom of the screen when you’ve finished editing your collection.

To import a collection from another Kindle:

  1. Go to the “My Library” option and sort your books by “Collection.” All of your collections you have created on other Kindles will be displayed, followed by individual titles that aren’t categorized.
  2. On the top left-hand side of the screen, you have a choice to see “All” of your collections or just the “Downloaded” collections currently on your Kindle. Select the “All” option.
  3. If the collection is on your current Kindle, on the right-hand side of each collection’s name will be a star; if there isn’t a star and you want that collection on your current Kindle, tap and hold the collection’s name and follow the instructions

Note: Importing a collection from another device does not import the books or other items to your Kindle if they aren’t downloaded already. However, books already on your Kindle that are associated with a collection will automatically appear under that collection name on your Home screen.  Open up the collection you just imported by tapping it once, and if you are still in the “All” view (remember, from the top left-hand side of the screen) you will see all of the books you have categorized in this collection.  Books on your Kindle have a black checkmark on the right-hand side, those that are not but in the cloud do not have this check mark.  To download a book from the cloud to your Kindle, just tap the name of the title once (but do not tap and hold!) and it will start the download process if you are connected wirelessly.

Removing or Reorganizing Content in a Collection

Maybe you would like to know how you can change books from one category to another, especially if you accidentally put one book in the wrong place. I’ve done that before a few times. While I am sure there are many ways to do this, here is how I corrected the problem and put the book where I originally intended:

  • Let’s assume you have 9 categories of collections, and you have one titled “Science Fiction” and another one titled “Westerns;” further assume you put a Science Fiction book in the Westerns category and you want to correct that error and put it in the Science Fiction category.
  • Press the “Home” icon the select the “My Library” option. Assuming you have your display to sort by collections, you should now see the list of categories you created for your Kindle’s unique collections, including the Science Fiction and Westerns categories.
  • Open the Westerns category by tapping it one time.
  • In the Westerns category, you should see the problematic book you wanted to have in the Science Fiction category. Tap and hold your finger on the name of the title which should have a new menu screen with several options available to you such as “Go to” and “Book Description;” my Paperwhite has 8 different selections.
  • The very first selection should be called “Add to Collection.” Choose this option by tapping it one time.
  • This next screen should be all of your collections – from here, you can scroll left or right. Scroll to the Science Fiction category, and tap the box on the right-hand side on the Science Fiction line.
  • If you have followed the instructions so far, the Science Fiction category should now have a checkmark in it, which means it is now included in the Science Fiction category collection.
  • You will also see a check mark in the box to the right of the category you didn’t want it in – the Western category; tap that box one time to remove the check. This may take a little bit of a delay, depending upon how many books are on your Kindle.  Give it a few seconds and it will work!
  • Your book should now be removed from the Western category and only in the Science Fiction category.
  • You are finished. Press the “Done” at the bottom and get back to doing what you originally meant to do with your Kindle when you picked it up: read!


As I indicated toward the beginning of this rather lengthy post, this isn’t the only way to do this – I actually use a combination of the above as well as the manage my content and devices section on the Amazon website.  Do whatever works for you – but if you have a lot of books I encourage you to make the time investment to get organized now so you can spend more time reading.

Hope that helps!

Michael

 

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