9/12/2023 0 Comments Update my kindle accountYou can’t just turn it on for all account devices in the “Manage Your Kindle” section at Amazon. This means that you have to switch in on for any and all devices where you read and annotate the book in question. Otherwise you stand to lose all of your annotations of any kind when the new file of the book replaces the old file of the book, the one with all you annotations attached.įinal kicker: while Automatic Book Updates is a global setting, Annotation Back Up is a local setting. So, the wisdom of the helpdesk at Amazon is that when you turn on Automatic Book Updates,you should “ensure that all your Kindle devices and reading apps have the “ Annotation Back Up” setting turned on.” Really, you must do this. If Automatic Book Updates is ON and Annotation Back Up is OFF, the book update will wipe out your bookmarks, notes, and highlights when the update is installed on your device(s)…automatically. And since the Mother Ship in Seattle can ping your devices any time it wants, it can check in to see if all of the copies of that book you are reading are synchronized on all devices in terms of where you are in the book, what your bookmarks are, and what notes, if any, you have made or highlights created. You see, now Amazon keeps a perfectly current version of any book that you are reading in, you guessed it, the cloud. That is the control that backs up your bookmarks, notes, and highlights–this control is called Annotation Back Up. However, there is another little control in this ecosystem that bears on the outcome of an Automatic Book Update. But why wouldn’t you? This is the equivalent of free improvement to a book you purchased, and you don’t have to lift a finger. “Automatically” suggests that it will happen whether you want it to or not. In either case, if Automatic Book Update is turned on, you will get the update…automatically. Please realize that in some cases the improvements are the correction of misspellings, attributions, and so forth. Now, if the sages at Amazon believe that a substantial improvement has been made to a book that you own, they can provide you with the update…automatically! All I can say is “sweet.” Here’s the deal: with e-books, authors can update their works and you can get those updates…automatically! Time was when you would go to the bookstore to see a book you had read with a new author’s introduction or updated ending and, to get the new material, you had to buy the whole book all over again! But no more. If you have been reading this blog, you know I am an awestruck fan of the Amazon reading ecosystem and the many, many ways it improves the reading experience, even if you can’t easily find that free book you are looking for…īut you have to remember that there are a LOT of moving parts in this marvelous ecosystem that sometimes combine to produce unexpected and unwanted results. Related Content: Should You De-Synchronize Your Kindle?
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