How to delete books, audiobooks, or PDFs from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Tap Library, then find the item.
- Tap Edit in the upper-right corner.
- Tap the item you want to remove, then tap the Trash icon .
- To remove the item from your device, choose Remove Download.
Tap iBooks, and if your Library (the bookshelf) isn't already displayed, tap the Library button. Tap an eBook to open it. The book opens. (If you hold your iPad in portrait orientation, it shows one page; if in landscape orientation, it will show two).
The hidden purchases are songs or apps that you may have downloaded that you do not want everyone who uses your account to see. So you can right click on them under your purchased section and choose to hide them. When you press the view hidden purchases button it takes you to your purchased screen.
Hide books in the Kindle appThe Kindle app on the iPhone does not let you delete books. However, they can be hidden. Books that are stored on the device have a tick icon. Go to your library and if you slide right to left over a book that has been downloaded and then press the Archive button.
Go to App Drawer> Home> Settings> Hide Applications> [choose apps to hide]> Done. Then, repeat the process to unhide the apps. The process to hide and unhide takes seconds; therefore a teen can easily get ready for a random inspection if you give him 20 seconds to prepare.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud (or Settings > iCloud), turn on iCloud Drive, then turn on Books.
Sync books between your Mac and iPhone or iPad
- Connect your device to your Mac.
- In the Finder on your Mac, select the device in the Finder sidebar.
- Select Books in the button bar.
- Select the “Sync books onto [device name]” checkbox to turn on syncing of your books.
- To sync a selection of of books, select the “Selected books” checkbox.
Inside the Apps folder is a Kindle folder (assuming you've installed Kindle for iPad), and within you will find Documents/eBooks. For those of you playing at home, the full path is Apps/Kindle/Documents/eBooks. I dropped a MOBI into that folder, and lo and behold, that MOBI can be opened in the Kindle for iPad app.
- Turn your Kindle on and press the "Home" button to display the device's current list of content.
- Scroll through the list of e-books, documents and collections using the 5-way controller and page-turn buttons, and select "Archived Items."
From the left panel on the Home screen, tap Books, Newsstand, or Audiobooks, or tap the icon from the app grid or carousel to view specific content in your Kindle Library.
You cannot hide books (just “tuck” them out of sight into some innocuous-sounding collection) from someone whose device is on your account and not under parental controls. If you want to hide them just on your Paperwhite, you can remove them from the device and then deregister your Kindle.
Your Amazon cloud is just your Amazon account where your digital content is saved (even if downloaded to a device). If you deleted books from the website, that IS deleting them from your Amazon cloud. If you use Send To Kindle or an @kindle address to download books, you use an Amazon cloud.
A free space on an 8GB kindle is about 6GB and a typical book size (texts only) is about 1MB. This means you can store 6000 such books in an 8GB kindle. Some books may be larger than 1MB, but it still should be able to hold 2000 to 3000 books easily. L.I.T.
Tap the book's page so that you get the icons along the top of the book, and then tap the icon at the far left (the three horizontal lines), and one of the options that you should get is Library.
Accessing Manage Your Kindle
- In your web browser, go to
- Hover over the Your Account drop-down menu. If you are accessing the Amazon site from the Silk browser on your Kindle Fire, tap instead of hovering.
- Choose Manage Your Kindle. If prompted, log in using your email address and Amazon password.
“Deregistering the Kindle will remove all content from the device. You do need to remove all purchased material from the Kindle device. Existing purchased Kindle content already on a device cannot be given as a gift according to the License Agreement and Terms of Use of the Amazon Kindle.”
Select this item from the list by tapping on it. Tapping “Remove from device” will delete the book from your Kindle device. Keep in mind that after you remove an item from your Kindle device, the item will still remain in your Cloud. This means that you can download it at a later date, if you desire.
You can go to the section of Amazon to manage your Kindle Fire, then follow these steps: Select the “Show” menu, then choose “Docs“. Select the “Actions” button next to the book you wish to remove. Choose “Delete” from library if you wish to remove permanently it from the site and your Kindle Fire.
To deregister a device from a Kindle reading app:
- Go to Manage Your Content and Devices.
- Select Devices.
- Select your device or app and select Deregister.
- To confirm, select Deregister again on the pop-up window.
Factory Reset Your Kindle E-Reader
- From the home screen, select Menu.
- Select Settings.
- Select Menu again then select Reset Device.
