Kindle – Don’t transfer too many books at once from Calibre or move too many books at once into collections
Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by JD in Devices, News, Tips, kindle
By Andrys Basten via TeleRead
In the Amazon forums, there’s been no small elation over finally
being able to organize Kindle books into user-customizable
‘folders’ of a type, named “Collections.”
It’s easy to do but somewhat time-consuming if you have anything like
400-700++ books on the Kindle. I had only about 200. Well, they do
encourage us to use the Kindle as a personal library and it’s fun for
that.
DON’T TRANSFER TOO MANY BOOKS AT ONCE FROM CALIBRE OR MOVE TOO MANY
BOOKS AT ONCE INTO COLLECTIONS
Probably, best advice: Do Not work on more than 100 books at a time
without turning on Wireless and doing a Menu/Sync & Check to make sure
the work is backed up before working on moving more books.
About four people during the last few days reported that, while
working on creating many collections for hundreds of books on the
Kindle, at a certain point their Kindles suddenly restarted and the
Collections they’d created were gone. This shouldn’t happen of
course, but at least we’ve found that Amazon has two recovery methods
for the Collections, as these are apparently backed up automatically
when “Wireless” is On for awhile or when you decide to Sync & Check
during a Wireless On session.
(Remember that you can plug in the charger while working with or
reading on the Kindle.)
1. In the case of Chelsea S. Lewis, she received this response from
Kindle customer service:
‘ I’m so sorry for the issue you’ve had recently with your
Collections after the 2.5 update for the Kindle.
You should be able to recover your Collections by simply de-
registering and re-registering your Kindle to your Amazon account.
On your Kindle, visit the Settings screen from the Menu button and
select the “Deregister” link.
Once your Kindle has been de-registered, select the “Register” link
to re-register your Kindle to your account. Your Collections should be
restored. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
If re-registering your Kindle doesn’t resolve the issue, please give
us a call. [all the information about calling again here]
I hope this helps. We look forward to seeing you again soon.
[ Andrys here: I hope not for the same reason ]
Best regards,
Jeff
Amazon.com ‘
And, I assume, not THE Jeff but definitely a helpful one.
