Kindle Usage Problem

[GN100]

I have an old paperwhite Kindle, although a little clunky now it works well enough for me. I buy books in the usual way through my Amazon account and allow the download to arrive wirelessly at the Kindle - no problems there. However I also use Calibre which is throwing a bit of a spanner in the works. My preferred operating method is to have available on the Kindle only the latest books on my reading list but I can't find a way on my Amazon account of deleting books only from the Kindle. The displayed message is that if I remove a book on my Amazon account it's gone for good. Now having paid for it and thinking I may want to refer to it later I would rather store this book somewhere. Enter Calibre and I now add the book from the file in my Kindle to Calibre and I can from there remove the book from my Kindle when I am finished. Unfortunately if I do that and then open the Kindle Amazon will send me the book again. The only way I can find to counter this is to remove the title manually from the Kindle memory. All in all a bit of a process.

Has anyone a better method or can tell me what I am doing wrong?

GN

[elkay]

On any book downloaded to my kindle, if I press and hold on the title in the library, there are a load of options, including one to "Remove from device".
That is what I use.

[Gaggsy]

There is an option on the homepage of the Kindle to view items on either Cloud or On Device. Make sure you have On Device selected.

[xeny]

Now having paid for it and thinking I may want to refer to it later I would rather store this book somewhere.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why not just leave it on the Kindle? I created a collection called "read" and everything I've read goes in there. There's a corresponding collection called unread....

[GrahamPlatt]

Same as elkay. Go to “your library”, press & hold, then “remove from this device”.

[quelquod]

I have lots of stuff on my kindle, much of it not from Amazon but downloaded or converted via Calibre from various sources. I just back the kindle up to the PC from time to time and together with the Calibre library I think I can reload anything OK.

[GN100]

Thanks for the tip on press and hold in the library. I have owned this kindle quite a long time and never tried that.

GN