Karen’s Chat on the Amazon Back Office

Do you ever go into the ‘Manage your Content’ for your Kindle on Amazon?

I haven’t been for a long time, and was having difficulty downloading a book. Each time I sent it from the back office, when I opened my Kindle, it wasn’t there. (It turned out we’d changed our Wi-Fi and I forgot to update it on my Kindle.)

I have the kindle app on my phone and iPad, and the book showed up on both without problem. During the day, I read on my iPad and use my Kindle in bed.

It was annoying, but I solved it. However, it caused me to look at the books in the back office. I realised that many of them weren’t showing on any of my devices. Most I’d forgotten about it.

I always assumed that the books I bought were all stored on my Kindle. But no, that’s not the case. And interestingly, they had the dates I bought them. Some went back to 2013 and a lot of them, I’d never even read.

Because I’d chosen them in the first place they all still looked exciting and tempting. In reality, I probably don’t need to buy another book for the rest of the year!

My To Be Read List

• Books 1-6 in the Grant County Series by Karin Slaughter. I’ve read them, but so long ago I’ll read them again, plus there is more in the series now.
• Books 1-3 in The Heart Trilogy by Audrina Lane. I’ve only read the first one.
• Seven Anthologies, some part read
• A Susan Lewis and Jo-Jo Moyes books
• Two Conrad Jones Anglesey based books
• Three Lynette Ferreira books (under her aliases)
• 4 Christmas books
• Various thrillers
• Romance stories
• And more.

Some were marked as read but as I don’t have any recollection of them, I may have to read them again!

I’ll sort through them and read the smaller novellas first. I’ll then work my way to the bigger books.

It’s always nice to see a cover. Which ones draws your eye?

These are the ones on my Kindle and I’m wondering have you read any? Or, perhaps there is one there you wrote.