New kindle transfer old books Offline#

To save yourself the bother of tapping on everything you see to check for this, just go into the various content menus (e.g., Books, Videos, Apps, Games, etc.) and tap the “Device” link to limit your view to stuff that’s been downloaded.Ģ.

Note: not everything that appears in your carousel has actually been downloaded to your Fire, and the “Delete from Device” option only shows up for stuff that’s has actually been downloaded to your Fire. To delete, tap and hold on the icon for the item to be deleted and select “Delete From Device” from the pop-up menu. But don’t forget: DO NOT delete any apps or games where keeping your progress is important to you, because deleting the app/game from your Fire will also delete your progress. Any content you delete from your Fire remains in the Cloud on Amazon’s servers, so you can always re-download it later if you change your mind. Delete as much of that stuff as possible, because it will make the rest of this process go MUCH faster and easier. First, delete as much as you can from your existing Fire. If you’re like me, you’ve got all kinds of apps you never use anymore, books you’re finished reading, and more stuff on your existing Fire that doesn’t really need to be copied to the new one. That last one shouldn’t happen to you, if you follow the steps in this post.ġ. Then I remembered that I’d deleted the app from my Fire months ago, and re-downloaded it later but had yet to re-open it since then.īut the point is, when you’re all done with this process, if you find you’ve lost some app progress it was probably due to either a previous deletion of the app or a failure to backup properly. So when I opened up The Curse puzzle app and found myself right back at the start of the game, at first I thought my progress had failed to copy.

New kindle transfer old books Offline#

*Exception for “My Music Library” – if you have a “My Music Library” set up in Amazon’s Cloud, and you typically stream your music from the Cloud instead of downloading it for offline listening, the Cloud will “remember” where you left off last time you were listening. When you delete something (other than Kindle books and Audible audiobooks, which you can sync to Amazon’s Cloud to save your progress) from your Fire, Amazon’s system is set up to assume you’re done with it-at least, for the time being-and therefore you will no longer need the bookmarks or progress data. Yes, even the DMM makes a user error now and then! I’d forgotten that anytime you delete app, music* or video content from your Fire, your bookmarks and progress are deleted, too. When I went through the process outlined below, in the end I found that every instance where I lost app progress was due to user error. Some apps are designed in such a way that user data files are tied to a specific device and aren’t supposed to be copied anywhere else, but this is increasingly rare since consumers want to be able to access their stuff from multiple devices. Note that there is no guarantee this process will preserve all of your progress in all of your apps, but it’s the only way to ensure the maximum that’s possible will survive. In step 2 below, you may have to click around a bit for different Fire models to find the content folders, but the bottom line is that you’re finding the content folders and backing them up, then copying that content to your new Fire. The process is essentially the same for all Fire models, but folder names and locations on different generations of Fire tablets may differ slightly. The steps below, and screenshot, are from going through this process with a Kindle Fire HD model. A Step-By-Step Process For Relocating To A New Kindle Fire When I got new Fire I was able to test this out for myself, so I can confirm that it works. The answer is: yes, but with some tweaks to the process. Now that the new Kindle Fire models are upon us, I’m getting this question pretty frequently: can the same method be used to transfer content from an old/pre-existing Kindle Fire to a new one?

In my previous post, Surviving A Kindle Fire Factory Reset – With (Most) Of Your Stuff Intact, I outlined a step-by-step process for backing up your Kindle Fire before performing a factory reset, then restoring that content after the reset.