What to Know

How to Remove Books From Kindle

Turn on your device. On the Home screen, select Your Library.

Press and hold the book you want to delete.

Select Remove From Device.

If you want to delete a book from your account for good, here’s how:

How to Re-Download Books to Your Kindle Library

In the upper-right corner, hover your cursor over Account & Lists and select Your Content and Devices.

The Manage Your Content and Devices screen opens. In the Select column, select the check boxes to the left of the books you want to delete. Toward the top of the screen, select Delete.

A dialog box appears, asking if you’re sure you want to delete the titles. Select Yes, delete permanently.

Once a book is permanently deleted, there’s no way to retrieve it. To get it back on your Kindle, you must repurchase it.

Here’s how to do it on your Kindle device:

  • Turn on your Kindle. On the Home screen, select Your Library.
  • Select ALL.
  • Select the book you want to re-download.

You can repeat the process of removing a book from your device and re-download it as many times as you want. This is one way to free up memory space when you don’t need a particular book.

Turn on your Kindle. On the Home screen, select Your Library.

Select ALL.

Select the book you want to re-download.

In the upper-right corner, hover your cursor over Account & Lists and select Your Content and Devices.

The Manage Your Content and Devices screen opens. Next to the book you want to re-download, select Actions.

In the dialog box, select your preferred Deliver to option.

A Deliver dialog box appears. Select Deliver.

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