Deleting all

[Kezarkid]

Showing 1 - 15 of 2895 items

Do I have do go thru each item to delete or is there a way
I can delete all at once.
Thanks

[KimberlyinMN]

As far as I know, it's one at a time - both on your Kindle and also if you want to permanently delete books via Amazon's Manager Your Kindle page. 

[LauraB]

Are you asking about deleting from you kindle, or your media library? If they show on your archive, that is just a list, the books are stored on Amazon's server, or the cloud, depending on your choice. If you delete from the media library or the archive you will delete the book forever from your account and you will have to reload it. The only ones actually stored on the Kindle show on your home page, and you scroll down on the touch, or next page on the others to see the ones that don't fit on the first screen. If you go into the menu and archives you are seeing the list of books you have stored with Amazon.

[Ann in Arlington]

Showing 1 - 15 of 2895 items

Do I have do go thru each item to delete or is there a way
I can delete all at once.
Thanks

If you want to delete them ALL, just reset your Kindle to factory settings.  From the home screen menu/settings/menu/reset to factory defaults.

If you only want to delete SOME, you have to go through one by one.

In either case, the books are still available on your Amazon account, and will, as Laura says, still show in your "archived items" listing.  If you want them gone forever you have to do that via Manage Your Kindle.  It's still a 'one at a time' process and once you've deleted one from there, it's gone for good.  If you want it back, you have to buy it again at whatever the current price is.

[omadonna]

Well, I'm new at this, but couldn't you just plug the Kindle into your computer and open the documents folder and remove all the books? I've removed a few at a time that way.

[Ann in Arlington]

Well, I'm new at this, but couldn't you just plug the Kindle into your computer and open the documents folder and remove all the books? I've removed a few at a time that way.

You could, but that means that the license for that particular copy may not have been released. 

Amazon generally allows a book to be loaded onto only a specific number of devices at a time, usually 6.  By removing a book the way you describe, as far as Amazon knows, the license is still in use so you're now down to 5.  Do that a few times and you are clearly limiting your access. Now, if you only have 1 kindle, it's not a problem.  But if, like many folks here, you have multiple kindles and/or multiple family members sharing an account, it becomes important to manage those licenses.  Also, as you get new kindles and download the book to new devices, it's important that previously used licenses are properly released so that you don't find, when you get your 7th Kindle, that you can't download a\the book any more.

By removing via the Kindle either individually or by doing a factory reset, the licenses are, for sure, restored and available.

[Kezarkid]

These are all the items I have sent to kindle.
i.e. articles from the newspapers, magazines etc
so that I can just read them when I want.

[Kezarkid]

One last thing. Are all of these article taking up a lot of
memory. If not I don't care if I delete but if they are then I would want to delete.