David, your assumptions are right on the mark. One can always re-insert an archived book into the Kindle home page by downloading it again. If a user wants to produce an uncluttered home page, he or she can move all materials not being actively read into the archives and later retrieve them on an as-needed basis.
Craig On 8/18/2012 1:23 PM, David Goldfield wrote:
Hi. I'm plodding through the Kindle Users' Guide. If I am interpreting what I am reading from that manual it seems that the purpose of the Archived Items folder is actually a way to keep track of items you've deleted but which are still stored on Amazon in your cloud-based library. Here's an example. You've downloaded a book and you decide that you want to remove it from your Kindle. When you point to the book from the home screen and move (I think) left to the item "remove from device" this causes the item to be removed but it goes into the Archived Items folder. At first I assumed this was like a Recycle bin but the manual seems to indicate that this is just a list of deleted books which can, if you choose, be redownloaded. When you open a book which is located in Archived Items it seems to download the book again from Amazon. Again, this is what I've gathered from the manual but let me know if I'm misreading this. David SM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Actually, you can delete books from the archives :-) Sent from my iPad On Aug 18, 2012, at 5:23 AM, "JANE SHEEHAN" <jcsheehan1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: No, I don't think you can delete items from archives, but you don't have to look at them, they just stay there. Jane Sheehan jcsheehan1@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gery Gaubert Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 11:10 AM To: 'vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [vi-kindle] archived items Is there anyway to get rid of archived items after you are done. I can get books for free so I get a book, read a book and I am done. Can I delete the book from the archives? Gery D. Gaubert Assistant, Information Technology Administrator St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office office (985) 783-0208 mobile 504-329-9439 ggaubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This e-mail and any attachments thereto are intended only for the use by the addressee(s) named herein and contain propriety/confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by telephone (985-783-0208) and permanently delete/destroy the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof.
