UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

Thanks. Changed.

Dah! Truncated. Boo.

Do a rewrite Rosen. ;)

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Joo!

Just a question actually - if you delete the clippings on your Kindle, will they stay on your Amazon account?"

I don't know.
I shall test it if I remember tomorrow.

Although I'm sure they only show what is currently highlighted and if you delete the highlight then it won't be highlighted and therefore not show in the highlighted highlights ;p :D

Ahem.

Just to be clear, you're talking about the highlights, yes?

No, silly.
I'm talking about the highlighted highlights.

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "No, silly.
I'm talking about the highlighted highlights."

You mean like the ones in my hair???

Haha.

See Joo the reason I ask is that I think I deleted my clippings accidentally ages ago but they are on my Amazon account. Although the key word there being 'think' I deleted them..

Right.
If you delete "my clippings" on your kindle, the highlights stay on Amazon
If you delete the highlights from inside the book, the highlights disappear from Amazon. And I pressed delete on the kindle, then refreshed my Amazon screen and it went straight away (ovbiously I had wifi turned on).

Now that never happens with a reporter's notebook and a biro!

And on further investigation. Mine goes back to October 13th. Although it only has the first one on Fake Kate
If you stick a note on there on Amazon, it comes up on your kindle notes.

It seems to be quite a funky thing.

Brilliant, Joo! Thanks for trying it for me :D!


It means I can delete clippings. That little file drives me crazy. Just sits there unloved and unorganisable.

I didn't know it worked the other way around!

It's rude for an author to be rude and unappreciative of the effort someone has gone to to point out errors. I'm always grateful. A fellow writer and I crit each other's mss, which is great for plot holes and clunky writing as well as the initial crop of typos, but then we have become used to the ms and it needs a third eye to spot errors.

I have common errors which I now use the Find feature. Ands, hads and so on. I do the same for irritating phrases which I overuse, like, "He looked at him." The difficulty is things like who's and whose, prize and prise. I've seen both those in books.

Yes, it is rude. In fact, the person who was rude to me will never have me buy any of their books or recommend them to others - even if their books were amazing. Not a good way to increase sales!

My sister spotted some typos in my novel. I was mortified because I'd proofed it what seemed like a million times. Felt a bit better when a massively best selling author (naming no names, but think number one in the Amazon charts kind of best seller) told me they'd found half a dozen in theirs yesterday. I still spent 8 hours the last two nights editing it to reupload tomorrow though. Pesky English degree makes me a perfectionist!

I'm mortified when someone finds a mistake in anything I've written, as I like to think I write pretty clean prose and I check everything thoroughly.

But these things happen. I'd certainly never be rude to anyone pointing out this kind of mistake - let's be clear, it's basically free sub-editing!

If you have a novel of 100,000 words and there are 10 characters per word (includes all punctuation) then that is 1 million characters per novel.

Some will always slip through ;)

I read mine over so many times, but some readers still spotted a few errors I missed. One pair of eyes cannot compete with even the less-keen eyes of hundreds!

DM - agree, there's always going to be something
I had my book professionally edited, but there have been a couple of points people have flagged with me, after it was published. My view is always ‘thanks for taking the time’