Deleting Multiple Books from Digital Editions

[laubo]

I've been continually frustrated trying to clear more than one book at a time from Digital Editions. Apparently Adbobe doesn't provide this feature for fear users will indadvertently delete books they want to keep. Well, I got tired of deleting one book at a time, so I use Windows Explorer to do it, if anyone is interested:

* First, I make sure all the books I want to keep are on my e-reader.

* Then, in Windows Explorer, I delete all files in My Digital Editions folder under My Documents Folder.

* If I want to return any books to Digital Editions, I transfer them from my e-reader to All Items in Digital Editions.

If anyone has an easier way, please let me know.

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

Selecting multiple items in the Library and hitting the delete key works as well....

[laubo]

Thanks; that's a lot simpler. It's the one thing I didn't think of. I was trying to do a multiple delete the same way I do a multiple delete in Windows Explorer -- highlight the items to delete, right click, and click on delete. I never thought of using the delete key in Windows Explorer, either.

[anns5773551]

This takes them out of ADE, but they still clog your folder My Digital Editions on your computer.

[Frustrated in AZ]

Be careful when you do this. ADE keeps a file called 'manifest.xml' that

contains a record of those ebooks ADE thinks it has in its library. If you

delete the ebooks, but don't change the manifest file, ADE will think those

ebooks are still there.

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[laubo]

You're right, Frustrated. When I was looking into this, I opened the manifest file and decided it would be a pain to modify it, so that's why I decided to delete all the books. It turns out that Jim_Lester's solution is easier than anything else, and I wish I'd thought of it myself, instead of all the monkying around with Windows Explorer.