Kindle 2: How To Delete Ebooks, Photos and Items

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It’s easy to get books, pictures, music files and other items on your Kindle. At some point, you are going to need to remove some of this to make room for more stuff. Here’s how to delete the files off of your Kindle 2.

1. Go to the Kindle’s Home screen.

2. Use the 5-way controller to locate and highlight the desired book, photo or item.

3. Press LEFT on the 5-way controller.

4. A black delete button will appear. Use the 5-way controller to select it.

5. When the confirmation box appears, use the 5-way controller to select ok.

 

26 Comments -


  1. d said on May 20, 2009

    this does not apply to archived items…how do you do that?

  2. r said on May 30, 2009

    this is easy and works well.

  3. Nancy said on December 6, 2009

    Thanks!!! I was grading student papers and didn’t want them sitting on the Kindle. Grateful for easy directions.

  4. Anonymous said on December 29, 2009

    thank you for walking me through deleting an item. i received my kindle as a christmas gift and was not sure how to do so. the next thing that i’d like to do is delete the authors screensavers, is there a way to do this? how many are there; i got tired of scrolling through, and does anyone know if any of them black writers?

  5. Tammy said on March 2, 2010

    Thanks we were trying to figure this out with our new Kindle.

  6. je99 said on May 12, 2010

    This only puts the item in the archived items… How do I make it go away completely?

  7. loulac said on May 18, 2010

    I did see Ralph Ellison after scrolling through many of them.

  8. IceyJ said on May 30, 2010

    I was hoping this would tell me how to delete mp3s from the audio folder. I don’t have an option to delete them in Windows 7. Oh well… Guess I’ll keep looking.

  9. shannon said on June 4, 2010

    How do you delete from your Archived items??

  10. Allie-Cat said on June 13, 2010

    I am also trying to delete my archived items. At one point I could go into the Manage Your Kindle part of Amazon.com/kindle. After some accidental clicking I found a screen where I could select the items I wanted to permanately delete and manually take them off. It was great but now I cannot find my way back. I was hoping someone else had found it as well. Oh well, I am back to search for it again. :)

  11. Hjlskl85 said on July 6, 2010

    I have been having problems with deleting some duplicate items on my Kindle. I downloaded a free book from feedbooks.com and got an error message multiple times so I reclicked on it and now have 5 copies on my Kindle. When I click on the button to delete and hit ok, it just grays out the item and then it pops right back up. What do I do to get rid of those items.

  12. cjshrop said on July 8, 2010

    Go to you amazon.com and sign-in. Go to “your account”. Go to “manage your kindle” and scroll down to “your orders”. Just under each book title, you’ll see a little “+” sign…click on that and it opens up other details. From there you’ll see “delete this title”. that removes it from your archives.

  13. Pargumedo said on July 10, 2010

    eres un genio, gracias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. JC said on September 15, 2010

    If you want to wipe your Kindle 2 for resale or giving to a freind, do the following:

    1. Deregister your kindle.

    2. Slide and hold the on/off switch to the right and HOLD it for 20-25 seconds. Then set it down for a minute while it resets. When it boots up, you’ll see your archived items are (0) and your Kindle is wiped clean.

  15. dcfrsw said on October 2, 2010

    Hello Hjlskl85 I don’t know if you still have the problem of grayed item but I just found a solution: when you connect your Kindle under Windows if you get a message saying there is something to analyse (sorry I try to translate my Windows is in french) let Windows do it. I had the same problem grayed item impossible to delete but once fixed by Windows the delete worked fine.

  16. Jenesisx said on October 17, 2010

    Thank you!!

  17. Nahni said on January 21, 2011

    How do you delete something from your Clippings?

  18. Jiang Wang said on February 18, 2011

    thanks

  19. Jiang Wang said on February 18, 2011

    thanks!

  20. Kari Melody said on March 5, 2011

    brilliant thanks!

  21. ChristinaFrancine said on April 7, 2011

    Very helpful information here. It’s too bad Kindle doesn’t come with a better user guide. Why don’t they?

  22. Asurendhra said on July 20, 2011

    u cant

  23. Asurendhra said on July 20, 2011

    u cant

  24. tearose81 said on August 10, 2011

    If you figured out how to do this I would like to know, downloaded some music I really don’t want on there.

  25. Bob said on September 24, 2011

    I’ve gone onto manage account and have permanently deleted the items I don’t want and they no longer appear in my library – but they are still in my archived items. I don’t want these books anymore!! Can i delete them from my archived items or are they hear to stay??

  26. Jana said on December 27, 2011

    Same problem – never is deleted fro the Archive… I don’t want to keep them on my Kindle. Any way to delete permanently? Amazon site Kindle manager was of no use…

 

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