
One by One Tutorial 1: One Click to Permanently Delete Kindle Books from iPad Tutorial 2: How to Delete Kindle Books on iPad Tutorial 1: One Click to Permanently Delete Kindle Books from iPad Whatever the purpose it is, how will you remove iPad Kindle books? See how to download free books on iPhone/iPad >īut cases could also be that you want to delete kindle books from iPad, simply because you dislike these books or want to free up more space on your device. With Kindle app, you can easily download and save ebooks and PDF files to your iOS device, so you are free to read books even if you are offline. But actually, the Amazon's e-reading app, also named Kindle, also receives warm reception among iPhone/iPad users, which is similar to iBook app of Apple company. Speaking of Kindle, you might firstly think of the reading device designed by Amazon company. A very simple (not that secure) way is to create a huge files filled with zeroes and delete it: dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/mounted/kindle/hugefile.datĪfter that the script does not list the previously installed books.Summary: This article offers you 2 different methods to delete Kindle Books from iPad with detailed instructions. There are several ways to wipe the empty space of the filesystem. It's not a perfect list but clearly shows that factory reset does not erase all the information. Mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0 Mnt/us/documents/A Clash of Kings A Song of Ice a-asin_B000FC1HBY-type_EBOK-v_0 It was very easy to create a script which lists most of the books previously installed on the device: $ strings afterfactoryreset.dat | grep -i '^mnt/us/documents' | rev | cut -d "." -f2- | rev | sort | uniq
LAST_BOOK_READ=/mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.azw mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.azwt One of the books I've read on this device is Zendegi ( by Greg Egan ) so I've searched for the string zendegi which appears quite a few times: $ strings afterfactoryreset.dat | grep -i zendegi I've connected the Kindle to a Linux computer and copied all the information to a huge (3.2GB) file:ĭd if=/dev/sdc1 of=afterfactoryreset.dat bs=1M After deregistering the device and executing factory reset the Kindle looks empty.
