Deleting (or remembering to-be-deleted) ebooks on the Sony PRS-T2?

[rebecca2525]

I've replaced my lost Sony 350 with the T2, and now I'm stumped with a very simple problem: I can't find a way to delete ebooks from the T2 while on the T2. (Deleting them with Calibre works fine.) There's a "Remove" option which removes a book from the current collection, but which doesn't delete the book itself.

With the 350, my reading process was like this: Put a whole bunch of mostly short books (usually fanfic) on the reader with Calibre. Read through the new books while away from the computer and immediately delete the books I don't want to keep/don't want to leave feedback on. After a few days/weeks/... hook up the reader with Calibre, remove the books from Calibre that are already deleted on the reader. Get new ebooks, repeat.

Now I'm trying to figure out how the process might work with my new reader. I don't want to have to remember which books I want to delete from the reader because I read too many ebooks in between connecting to the computer. So far the only way I see is using collections to remember the to-be-deleted books, but as far as I can see collection management is very cumbersome on the T2 too. (On the 350, I could invoke the delete option directly from the reading view.)

How do you people handle this?

Comments

[elf]

The manual says you can delete individual books & whole batches.

from Pg 130:

1 Press the (Home) button; tap [Bookshelves].
2 Tap and hold an item.
The option items appear.
3 Tap [Delete].
4 Tap [Yes] when prompted.
The item is deleted from the Reader.

(I don't blame you for not spotting it; the manual is arranged weirdly. I'd been using my 505 for almost a year before someone told me how to delete from it without connecting to a computer.)

The next few pages in the manual also cover how to protect an item from accidental deletion.

[rebecca2525]

Ah that, yes. That deletes a whole collection (with the books contained within), as you're on the list of collections when tapping Bookshelves. You can even select several collections to delete at once.

But now I see what I've been missing: On the Bookshelve view, I have to switch from Collections to Books. When I'm on the list of all books, I can delete books. I've always tried from the list of books in a collection, because that's how I tend to find my books, but there the delete option is missing. Meh, that's not very intuitive.

Thank you very much!

[rebecca2525]

Correction: The delete on the Bookshelves page deletes a collection without the content.