The lovely Dani has had a recent disaster, losing the books in her huge Kindle library.
She needs help to recover them, and I am hopeless. Here is her question, if you can help her.
I have a Kindle Fire and had all my books in my cloud and the Send to Kindle section but my 5 year old son grabbed my tablet and said he wanted to take a picture with it… Well I grabbed it right back and I noticed my Kindle books disappeared inthe main library and then went to the cloud and they were gone too! I mean, hallelujah freaking monkey balls, I was freaking out! About 5,000 books in my regular Kindle library which I am not going to lie that most of them were free ones I got over the years but didn’t change my love for them!!❤ but my review/mobi file books from NetGalley, authors,and publishers were GONE! Okay so they weren’t totally gone, I went into the Amazon app and found them under Device Content but here’s the problem, I wanted all my books back to their proper place but once I started checking books off to get them back where they should be but when I selected a page worth they would all get sent to download and I didn’t have enough space for just 50 or so booksand wouldn’t let me archive the books so that they were there just not downloaded. Also it doesn’t just show the whole name of book or which I ne came from the cloud so it’s been impossible to find a way to get all of them back in the library where they belong! Do any of you good folks have any advice on how to deal with this? I contacted Amazon Support for Fire and was no help at all! So any tips or help would be so much appreciated so I can go through and get these reviews popping and back to where they belong!
If you can help, please leave a comment on her blog post.
Here’s the link.
https://touchmyspinebookreviews.com/2021/02/11/sorry-for-my-absence-a-question-an-update/
Thanks in advance, Pete.
I hope Dani had got help. Sorry, with Kindle my knowledge is very small. I am leaving all books on the cloud, and read on a small netbook. Michael
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Thanks, Michael. I was of no help to her, but hopefully some of the other tips might prove to be useful
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks so much for posting this, Pete!!! It means the world to have this kind of help and receiving everyone’s advice and support. You rock, Pete!❤❤❤ xoxo
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I will always try to help you, dear Dani. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. xx
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You have no idea how much that means to me.❤💙 I am so thankful to have you as a friend.😍
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When I lost mine kindle support really helped but I see they didn’t on this occasion and like you, Pete I am no techie so can’t help, unfortunately 🙂 x
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Thanks, Carol. I hope Dani can eventually get some help from Amazon. They can be hit and miss where help is concerned.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Yes I have found that but the Uk Amazon I find much more helpful than the US Amazon I hope Dani gets her books back 🙂 x
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Thanks so much Carol & Pete!❤ I will have to try Amazon again even though the thought it dreadful because y’all are definitely right they are so hit and miss.
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Check out Len Edgerly at The Kindle Chronicles he might be able to help:
http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/
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Thanks for that link, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks so much!❤
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(1) All my books are on shelves in the house. They take up a lot of physical space, but at least they’ll never go poof!
(2) I was so looking forward to reading her book, “Hallelujah Freaking Monkey Balls.”
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Dani is a book reviewer, David. She gets digital copies to review on her blog. She lost around 5,000 files. That would take up a lot of space as physical books on a shelf. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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From the jaws of wisdom, I quote: “We’re gonna need a bigger house…”
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You’re right, Pete definitely not enough space especially when I already have 100s of physical books from over the years and they take up too much space but yeah all the digital copies I have been sent for review are all mixed within the 5k books of madness! Hallelujah Freaking Monkey Balls, indeed!
P.S. Pete, I am sorry for blowing up your notifications, my friend. I declare you are an amazing friend.😍
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No problem at all, Dani. xx
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😊❤
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Hooray that Dani’s back, but that’s dreadful about her Kindle. I don’t have anything helpful to add on the top of my head, but I’ll do some research.
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Thanks very much, Kim. I am no good with tech stuff at all.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks so much, Book Sister! I have missed you very much. I hope you and Tom are doing well!❤ Your support means the world and I’m so thankful to know bloggers like you & Pete! Sending love your way.❤
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I’m sure it must be possible from the Amazon ‘Content and Devices’ page. Perhaps try loading one at a time or send Amazon an email?
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Thanks for your suggestion, Stevie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hey there, Stevie! Thanks for your advice! I have tried this area but am unable to read or see which ones are my review copies and can only download a few at a time then it takes up all the space and you can’t undownload and send them to the cloud them so you can download more. And with over 5k books, it’s a big mess! Also tried Amazon tech department and they were no help at all, unfortunately.
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Sorry to hear this. Maybe when you buy a new Kindle then you’ll be able to download them all?
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I don’t have kindle so I’m no good for this one.
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Thanks anyway, FR.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks anyways, Waffles!❤ I remember you use Apple. It means a lot just to have your support.😊
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I am no tech genius….I will ask my daughter and see if there is something she knows…..nice to see Dani again. chuq
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Thanks, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Great to see you again, Chuq and everyone else! It means a lot to just have y’alls support.😀
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😎
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I wish I could help, but I have zero experience of the Kindle reader. I hope Dani gets it sorted. Cheers, Jon.
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Thanks anyway, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hi PJ,
Having a huge digital library myself these things can happen. And it has to me!
So, a suggestion and then a long term solution:
1/ if she has any file record (in any digital format) of her titles she can run that file thru a reformatting programme (such as Calibre) and can recreate the book. This is painstaking for 5k of books as each title must be uploaded and formatted; but the system will allow bundles of up to 10 titles at a time to be reformatted – slow! But that’s the price for getting them back.
And long term: back up the reinstated titles on a hard drive so there is a hard (digital) copy at home and not in a ‘cloud’.
Hope that helps.
Julian
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Thanks so much for your help and advice, my good friend.
My best wishes to you all in Turkey, with much love.
Pete. x
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Thanks so much for your help, Julian!😀 I was hoping that doing it 10 titles at a time wasn’t the only way.😔 It’s been very difficult and haven’t been able to undownload the content so it’s just in the library. Then because you can’t undownload it you can’t download the other books! It’s really a disaster and all the titles in the device content can’t even be fully read so I can’t even separate which ones are .my review copies! Smh. I have no idea about recalibrating or anything but will look into it. I appreciate your advice and it’s nice to meet you, Julian.😊
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Thanks Jon!❤🌺
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