How to Archive Kindle Books

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How to Archive Kindle Books – Holding 3,500 books at a time, an Amazon. with Kindle 3 is like your own personal library in your hand. As an avid reader, you may not be able to resist buying books, reading sample chapters, and downloading free classical literature, such as “War and Peace” and “Complete Works by William Shakespeare.” But just because you can store so many books on your Kindle does not mean you should. Keep your Kindle library organized while moving, or archiving, books to the Amazon server once you have finished reading them. When you archive a book, you remove it from your Kindle. At any time, you can retrieve the book from Amazon’s server and re-read it on your Kindle.

How to Archive Kindle Books

Press the “Home” button on your Kindle.

Scroll down with the controller until you underline, or highlight, the book you want to archive.

Press the left arrow button on the controller. Kindle will display the message “Remove from device.”

Press the middle button on the controller. Kindle removes the book from your list of books and excludes it from the Kindle. The book is permanently stored on Amazon servers so you can recover in the future. You can find your book by looking in your “Items Files” folder.

 

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Tips & Warnings

Your notes to the archived book are stored in the “My Clippings” file on your Kindle.

Amazon does not file personal documents that you have transferred to the Kindle. Before deleting personal documents, make sure you back them up to a USB drive or your computer.