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Amazon Warns Against Installing Latest Kindle App Update for iOS Due to Deleted Book Libraries [Update: Fix Live]
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It is not like it says "Oh, your entire collection has been deleted. Please re-purchase everything again."
Don't you keep copies of those somewhere other than your ios devices?
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You don't lose your place. At least, I would not, since my place in the book is also saved in the Cloud, automatically. One of the benefits of Kindle software is that I can switch between reading the same book on my Kindle, iPad, iPhone, laptop, whatever, without losing my place.
I notice it does not show the cloud books how far they have been read. that would let me sort the old from the new.
I do so it's no problem for me. Unfortunately, many informed people do not bother keeping copies or even backing up their computer / data. I put the blame on these people if they lost stuff due to the Kindle app update but it doesn't change the fact that some people lost items they purchased elsewhere.
When I purchase books from other sources, I email them to my Kindle device and as far as I can tell, they wind up in my cloud. Not that you can trust anything in the cloud today will be in the cloud tomorrow.
Hear hear. My 3G was borked similarly for iBooks and Kindle. Extremely annoying. Guess I should report this to Apple.
True, although Amazon shares blame for what is clearly a sloppy release with a glaring and significant bug.
Sorry, no, this is all on Amazon.
In the future you guys should really send your mobi books directly to the document archive on Amazon, either by using your kindle email or the Send to Kindle application. There isn't a lot of point in keeping them locally on your device when Amazon give you 5 GB of storage for free.
That means the books will be available and synced on all your devices as well.
That means the books will be available and synced on all your devices as well.
I update to the new version and everything was there, so it was probably at launch that it happened and I had not launched the app
I did not know that you could do this. Thanks! I have been trying to redownload all of my .mobi files to put on the cloud, but cannot find a handful. The rest are out there, never to be lost again.
thank you
We're talking about apps, like the Kindle app, not OS versions (at least I can only assume that's what the OP meant since they called the lack of old version reversion a "problem" and this story is about the Kindle app problem, not iOS itself).
What's actually happened (and this happened to my Dad) is that it's registered your IPad as a new device in the Manage my Kindle page on their website. So all of the settings (like auto-download, delivery email address etc) apply to Ipad 1 (say).
But your iPad is now Ipad 2, so none of the settings apply...
Not sure if the updated version will fix this if you've already gone through it...
If it doesn't then you'll have to log in to Manage my Kindle, note the old Kindle delivery address, delete the old iPad, rename iPad 2 to iPad, amend it's delivery address....
That will restore your auto-download settings.
No comment on stuff you've sideloaded or opened from an email/dropbox/etc
But your iPad is now Ipad 2, so none of the settings apply...
Not sure if the updated version will fix this if you've already gone through it...
If it doesn't then you'll have to log in to Manage my Kindle, note the old Kindle delivery address, delete the old iPad, rename iPad 2 to iPad, amend it's delivery address....
That will restore your auto-download settings.
No comment on stuff you've sideloaded or opened from an email/dropbox/etc
Or your custom folders or any books you didn't buy from Amazon, like eBooks, documents, free samples etc.
Plus, if you have larger libraries, do you even remember which books you purchased? AFAIK, Amazon doesn't have a "purchased" list...