How to Deal with a Difficult or Bullying Boss | Psychology Today

Be proactive by approaching the situation with a positive mental attitude. Display confidence and stay poised. If your boss is a bully, this will show that you are not intimidated by the bullying behavior.

2. Be Prepared. You likely know the difficult boss's pattern of bad behavior, so anticipate and prepare your responses beforehand. Write them on index cards, and practice delivering them.

"Boss, when you do that, it isn't motivating me..." or "...it only makes us feel like you don't value our work..." or stronger statements, such as "That kind of behavior is unacceptable."

You also should anticipate the bad boss's comeback, and have your response or action plan in place. If the boss begins to rant and rave, you can leave and say, "I'll come back when you are calmed down and civil." Think of it as a chess match, and be prepared several "moves" in advance.

You will also need to be prepared for the fallout of standing up to a difficult or bullying boss. The boss might single you out for even worse treatment or might sanction or fire you. That is why it is important to think things through beforehand. What are you willing to do? What are your options? Can you deal with the possible worst outcomes?

3. Be Professional. This is critically important. Always take the high road. Follow proper procedures for registering complaints with Human Resources, or higher-level superiors. Maintain a calm and professional demeanor in dealing with your difficult boss, and don't get into a shouting match or let your emotions get out of hand. Don't resort to name-calling or rumor-mongering, but be straightforward and professional.

4. Be Persistent. It isn't likely that your difficult boss situation will change overnight, so be prepared for the long haul. Moreover, be persistent in calling out your boss's bad behavior, and putting your plan into action. Your coworkers might follow your lead and start to stand up to the difficult boss as well (although you should be prepared for the boss to try to turn them against you, or for your coworkers' possible lack of support). The key is to not let your boss get away with continuing his/her bad behavior.

Here are some resources:

Is Your Boss a Bully?: Take This Test!

Workplace Bulllying

Kickbully.com

http://www.workplacebullying.org/

Gary Namie & Ruth Namie (2009). The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job (2nd ed.), Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.

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What I like about this article is that the emphasis is placed on keeping your own integrity and being professional. Most people in authority may be under quite a bit of pressure that one cannot see, and bosses may easily crack and explode, two months later you find out that their child just had an operation, or they had to take out a loan to keep the business going, or are having heavy duty health issues. Changes one's perspective quite a bit.

Hans Zimmer - Time - Musicvideo HD - YouTube

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This is very moving music, it feels sometimes that the closest we can get to high quality orchestral music in this age, is in the movies. This is quite moving.

Mysterious Dancer - YouTube

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This is how to handle the "surprise" moment when you get invited up on stage. I think this young lady was following the band for a while, and tend to think that she might have been looking for an invite to tour professionally. She is employing a very sharp strategy if you think about it and read between the lines. Plus, the Edge married the belly dance who was working with the band during the Zootv tour, you can see her in about the 1992 performances.

Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero

Oskar Schindler (third from left) at a party with local SS officials on his 34th birthday. Schindler attempted to use his connections with German officials to obtain information that might protect his Jewish employees. Krakow, Poland, April 28, 1942. —Leopold Page Photographic Collection
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Asked why he had intervened on behalf of the Jews, Schindler replied:
“The persecution of Jews in the General Government in Polish territory gradually worsened in its cruelty. In 1939 and 1940 they were forced to wear the Star of David and were herded together and confined in ghettos. In 1941 and 1942 this unadulterated sadism was fully revealed. And then a thinking man, who had overcome his inner cowardice, simply had to help. There was no other choice.”
—Oskar Schindler, 1964 interview.

Oskar Schindler’s actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust have earned him a special place among honored rescuers.

Schindler was an unlikely hero. An ethnic German living in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, he joined the Nazi party in 1939. In the wake of the German invasion of Poland, Schindler went to Krakow. He assumed responsibility for the operation of two formerly Jewish-owned manufacturers of enamel kitchenware and then established his own enamel works in Zablocie, outside Krakow. Through army contracts and the exploitation of cheap labor from the Krakow ghetto, he amassed a fortune. Dealing on the black market, he lived in high style.

In 1942 and early 1943, the Germans decimated the ghetto’s population of some 20,000 Jews through shootings and deportations. Several thousand Jews who survived the ghetto’s liquidation were taken to Plaszow, a forced labor camp run by the sadistic SS commandant Amon Leopold Goeth. Moved by the cruelties he witnessed, Schindler contrived to transfer his Jewish workers to barracks at his factory.

In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau. Each of these Jews was placed on “Schindler’s List.” Schindler and his workforce set up a bogus munitions factory, which sustained them in relative safety until the war ended.

Oskar Schindler’s transformation from Nazi war profiteer to protector of Jews is the subject of several documentaries, the best-selling novel Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, and an Academy award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg.

This 19th-century Italian violin belonged to Henry Rosner. Until the outbreak of war in 1939, Rosner was a professional violinist. He played in well-known cafes, hotels, and resorts all over Europe. During the war, Rosner was a prisoner in the Plaszow forced labor camp. In Plaszow, he frequently played for camp commandant Amon Goeth. When Rosner was transferred from Plaszow to a camp in Germany, he was unable to take his violin with him. Oskar Schindler had heard Rosner play at Plaszow. He bought the violin and presented it to Rosner’s wife, who was working in Schindler’s munitions plant in Bruennlitz. After the war, Henry Rosner was reunited with both his wife and his violin. He resumed his prewar profession and performed in New York hotels. —USHMM Collection, gift of Murray Pantirer, Abraham Zuckerman, and Isak Levenstein

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• Rescue
  
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• Information on the Schindler traveling exhibition
  

 

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Here is some information on Oskar Schindler from the Holocaust Museum. We really like the story about the violin towards the bottom of the page. There is something about the real value of human souls, and the things we have in this life, and our fates and how they play out. Quite moving.

BBC News - Holocaust survivor Henia Bryer: Prisoner number A26188

26 January 2013 Last updated at 02:12

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Holocaust survivor Henia Bryer: Prisoner number A26188

By Duncan Walker BBC News

Henia Bryer had enjoyed a middle class childhood as the daughter of a factory owner

The German invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the happy childhood of Henia Bryer. Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day she recalls how she was sent to four concentration camps, but survived them all.

"They were wearing these black uniforms with a skull on top and they installed loud speakers all over the town spreading hate propaganda," says Henia Bryer of the German army's arrival in Radom, eight days after they crossed the border on 1 September.

"Hitler's speeches went on for hours and hours... he never made any secret of what he was going to do to the Jews."

At first, Bryer's family - including an older brother and a younger brother and sister - survived on the gold coins saved by her father, a shoe factory owner who continued working, but was not paid. Much worse was to come.

In 1941 they were among the 30,000 people confined to a ghetto, set up in the Jewish area. Conditions were very poor, with 10 people living in a single room.

Violence and shootings were commonplace, yet the family managed to stay together.

It did not last.

"My younger brother was taken to the armament factory. We never knew what happened to him during the war - and he never talked about it. His own family doesn't know where he was, what he did."

Her older brother, disabled since birth, was among those killed.

"My brother went to the hospital, but they shot all the people that were physically disabled.

"He knew exactly what was happening... he took off his winter coat and he gave it to my mother and he said: 'Give it to someone who will need it. I won't need it any more'. And she came home with a coat."

Concentration camps

By March 1944 the ghetto population had fallen to just 300 people and it was closed.

Those who remained were marched to the railway station and, on packed "cattle trucks", taken to Majdanek, near Lublin, Bryer's first concentration camp.

After being ordered to strip and stand naked in the snow, she and the others were given "a striped uniform, a striped dress and a white handkerchief on the head - and that was all you had in this winter". She spent her 17th birthday in the camp.

Continue reading the main story

• Prisoner Number A26188: Henia Bryer is shown on Sunday, 27 January at 22:25 GMT on BBC One
• Catch up later (in the UK) on iPlayer

After six weeks the family were moved again, with Bryer sent to Plaszow, near Krakow - the concentration camp portrayed in Schindler's List.

Life there was brutal, with the prisoners divided into work teams and forced to push wagons full of stones, laden from the quarry.

"It was a hell of a job, we could hardly manage. There were shootings and hangings and there was no crematorium there - only a hill where they used to burn the people and all the ashes used to fly over us."

Another danger was the demand for blood for German troops fighting in Russia, which was forcibly taken and difficult to recover from.

It was at Plaszow that her father, an "upright" man who no longer knew where his wife or children were, was beaten to death by a guard.

Life or death decision

In 1944 Bryer was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she saw notorious camp doctor Josef Mengele.

"They took us off the train and we had to line up and strip. The men were separated from the women immediately. And there stood Dr Mengele and his cronies - fully dressed in uniforms and we had to parade in front of them. You can imagine what that felt like.

"He was just flicking his finger. If he flicked the finger to the left, the people were going straight to the crematorium. If to the right, they were going to the camp."

She also recalls music blaring over loudspeakers as children were separated from their parents. She did not see her sister, but has no doubt about what happened. "She was sent into the ovens."

Henia Bryer spent three months in Auschwitz

During a freezing winter Bryer, now tattooed as Auschwitz prisoner A26188, struggled against starvation, reciting poems to keep her mind on other things.

And, as she turned 18 in mid-December, she thought of how she should have been going to university in Rome.

She remembers telling herself: "I am too young to die, I can't die. I haven't seen anything, I haven't done anything yet."

Three months after she arrived, and two days before it was reached by Russian troops, Bryer was moved again.

During a forced march she saw the bodies of those shot because they were too tired to walk.

Arriving at the last camp, Bergen-Belsen, she saw "a huge mountain of dead bodies... partly decomposing".

The camp was "the pits", she says, even compared to Auschwitz.

Visiting the camp after its liberation in April 1945, the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby described it as a "living nightmare".

And for the prisoners, freedom was not immediate. Suffering from diseases including typhus, they were locked inside with too few doctors to care for them and fatty foods their bodies could no longer digest.

"People were dying - there were 30,000 people that died after the liberation. I felt terrible, I lost the only friend I had right through the camps."

'Never forgotten'

After the war, Bryer was reunited with her mother and lived in France and Israel before she met her husband Maurice and moved with him to South Africa.

Now in her 80s, she fears younger generations lack knowledge of the Holocaust.

"I had an operation once and the anaesthetist comes and looks at [the tattoo on] my arm and he says, 'What is this?' And I said, 'That's from Auschwitz.' And he said, 'Auschwitz, what was that?' And that was a young man, a qualified doctor," she says.

There was no time to explain: "I was unconscious the next minute!"

Bryer's memories of the camps and the scenes she witnessed, remain - and she is determined that what happened should never be forgotten.

"We had in history bloody wars and revolutions and every type of tragedies, but I think this is not comparable to anything in the world."

via bbc.co.uk

It is so incredibly difficult to believe that this could have occurred in the world less than seventy years ago. Having written this we do of course understand that there is war going on all the time. It was quite a shock many years ago, perhaps it was the sixties or seventies, we remember seeing an episode of the British news program "Panorama", which opened with a map of the world and the presenter spoke about the fact there there were one hundred and sixty eight places at that time, where war and conflict was occurring somewhere in the world. These were also places where people were killed, lives and childhoods ruined and destroyed.

What differentiates the holocaust that the Germans brought upon the Jewish people, the gypsies, communists and homosexual that they herded into their camps, is the vast scale of the systematic infrastructure they employed to accomplish their efforts to eliminate the Jewish people from Europe. Additionally, if you read into it, there is the fact that it was part of a considered and planned conspiracy to exert the influence and survival of a political mindset, the Germanic race, banking interests, the Nazi ideology, with a view to creating a vast new empire of influence.

We will bear in mind that this all occurred within a time frame at it's most visible, of between the early nineteen thirties until the German surrender in nineteen forty five. Naturally the roots of the assertion of the German gene pool as superior, appears to find it's roots in the work of at least one theoretician of the eighteenth century. The idea of the Aryan race.

We remember reading the Guinness book of world records, and learning that forty four million people were estimated to have died under the soviet era rule of Josef Stalin, as we recollect, perhaps about fifty five million people died during the second world war all told. With the statistic coming to mind that one in five of the Russian population perished during world war two. These figures do not bring into account the number of wounded, crippled, traumatized and destroyed people who were of course also affected.

Germany of the nineteen thirties was a cultured and sophisticated society, it is almost inconceivable that a homeless world war one veteran (Adolf Hitler), could have risen to become the chancellor of Germany. But if you read books on the subject, much like Lenin with the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen, he had a huge amount of financial backing, and both these men appear to be servants of powerful interests with vast financial resources and infrastructures available to them.

Hitler had mentors that instilled in him the principles of manipulating crowds, nlp, speech making, exploiting the "wiring" or psychology of a country that had been frustrated by an early surrender when the military felt that they could have won the first world war, followed by an extremely punitive agreement that helped fuel the depression in Germany that was to follow.

It is worth keeping in mind that when Hitler accepted the French surrender, he had the same railway carriage that was used for the first world war surrender of the Germans, to further emphasize and humiliate the French nation. The carriage was later taken to Berlin where it was destroyed during an air raid on the city.

Josef Goebbels "marketing" of the Nazi ideology, the legal structure the Nazi lawyers introduced to gradually, organically, and systematically remove the Jews and other "undesirables" from German daily life, paved the way for them to overtly begin to remove the Jews from Europe and ship them out to their concentration camps. Stalin was perhaps more secretive in his attempts to control and divide the Russian population. His secret police would come for someone in the early hours of the morning, when people would most likely be asleep, drowsy, tired and vulnerable, thereby offering much less resistance.

It was only towards the end of the war, that the news of the horrors that the Nazis perpetrated on the Jews came to light. It is really moving to read this account of so long ago, but to also note the level of non awareness that the man in the hospital demonstrated when he displayed no knowledge of Auschwitz.

eReader1: Tip #20: Kindle Collections.... how do you use yours?

Friday, June 18, 2010

Tip #20: Kindle Collections.... how do you use yours?

The long awaited Kindle "folders" are here for Kindle 3, 2.5 and DX, and with a far easier way to organize your ebooks on your Kindle homepage. If you don't have update 2.5 yet, check out my previous post on how to get Kindle 2.5.

So... collections. It's simple to create new collections from your Home page menu. Click Menu > Create collection and type the name you want to call it. They may be based on genre, author, your ratings (good/ bad) or a combination of all of these. I have quite a few collections  based on my reading tastes, but at least 2 collections that seem popular are "current reading" and "to be read".  I debated having a "rubbish pile" too but decided to simply delete books I hate.

Some of my collections
Current Reading
To Be Read and Samples
Horror/ Sci-fi/ Supernatural
End Of the World/ Disaster
Mystery/ Thriller
Young Adult/ Children
Favorites/ Read again
Classics
Non Fiction
Other

To add a book to your collection:

You can do this 2 ways.

1) Select the book first then add it to your collections

Scroll to the title on your home page, flick the 5 way to the right and click Add to Collection (see left).

When your collection list comes up, scroll down to the one you want and click the 5 way. A check mark appears when it has been added.
You can add the book to as many collections as you like, so it can be in favorites and classics at the same time, or in children and series at the same time, for example.

Note: When adding samples to collections, be careful not to click Buy This Book - for samples, this link appears above Add to Collection and if you have wireless turned on, you might buy a few by accident! Luckily Amazon are very forgiving and will refund you for your error if you let them know within 7 days.

2) Selecting a collection first THEN add your books

Scroll to your collection, right click and you'll see this page (screenshot right).

Click Add/ Remove items.
This will then show you all of your books - scroll through and click the ones you want to add to the collection. A check mark will appear beside the title. (see below)

When done, simply scroll to the word Done and click it. Or click HOME.

Home page organization

You may still organize your books the "old way" - that is, by title or author. You can no longer organize by subscription or personal documents. These all appear with your books.

To remove Books from your Kindle's Home page, then you need to sort your home page By Collection... this will leave behind Collections and unsorted books.

If you organize by collections (left), then they appear in the order of Most Recently First. You cannot organize collection names alphabetically on your home page, even if you use asterisks in front of the name.

For ultra neatness, I keep my *Current reading folder open all the time (see below). That means when I turn on my Kindle, it's a clean uncluttered page with just a few books on it.

Within collections, you can continue to organize by Most Recent, By Author or By Title. In the screenshot above,  I have it organized by author. That's what I prefer for many collections, especially my collection for Series so all the books in a series are grouped together.

View: Sorting By Title or By Author

View more Kindle tips & tricks

You might also like:

Tip #10: Managing book collections

Tip: Scrolling pages when adding to Kindle collections

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   PennyJune 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM

   I just purchased a Kindle, and am following the instructions to add a Collection, but there is nothing that says "add a collection" aftering clicking the Menu button from the Home page. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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   DanielleJune 28, 2010 at 9:20 AM

   Hi Penny
   At Menu on home page, it should say "Create Collection".
   To Add to a collection, click the book name itself and flick the 5 way to the right.

   If not, check what version you have, by going to MENU, Settings, and then at the bottom of the page, it will say version 2.3 or 2.5 etc.

   If you have a number less than 2.5 then you need to update (see previous post

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3. 
   TracyJuly 6, 2010 at 12:01 AM

   Thanks for the article! Just updated to 2.5 and this gave me a clear idea of how to best use the new collections feature :-).

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   DavidWSnowJuly 25, 2010 at 5:41 PM

   With both my wife and I having Kindles and "sharing" an account, do you have any suggestions for organizing when two people share the same account? Are these collections just for my Kindle or are the for my account? ie can/will the be seen on Kindle for PC/iPhone/Android someday?

   /DaveS

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5. 
   DanielleJuly 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM

   Hi Dave
   The collections are purely for your Kindle home page, which means they can be 100% personalized. That way, you and your wife may categorize differently.

   On the Kindle it's important to note that collections are not the same as folders. It's more like a tagging system, so that on your Kindle, you tag name a book say "Favorite". When you click that collection, it brings up all of your "favorite" tags.
   If you delete a "collection" it will NOT delete the books from your Kindle. They will just go back to your Home page. Likewise, if you or your wife change a collection on your own Kindle, it won't affect the other Kindle, or any device.

   For "Kindle for PC" I just have a Kindle folder on my desktop, and within that I have folders for my ebooks.

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6. 
   AnonymousSeptember 5, 2010 at 12:51 AM

   Why do my book titles still show up on the home page after I have added them to a collection ??
   Is this the norm, or can I do something to get rid of them ??

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   DanielleSeptember 6, 2010 at 6:02 PM

   Hi Anon,
   There are a few ways to sort your home page. If it's sorted By author/ by Title, then they will still appear on the Home page.

   You can check at the top right of your home page.

   To "get rid them" you need to sort By Collection. At the home page, use your 5 way to move to the very top of the page, then click right. Scroll to collections and click to select it.

   Now your collections should be on the home page. As you add books to collections, they should disappear from the page.

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   AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 10:25 PM

   I called eachbof my collections by a name that begins with a NUMBER so that I could use Sort by title and still have all my collections show up in my home page, followed by a list of books in alpha order.

   1C01 current reding /fav/links
   2C02 bibles / devotional
   3C03 Global Issues, History, Politics

   This is working well, ESP since I list some books in multiple collections global issues, culture, business, fiction, etc

   Dana

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9. 
   DanielleSeptember 7, 2010 at 7:54 AM

   That's a great idea Dana. Thanks for letting us know!

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10. 
    AnonymousOctober 8, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    There are several books in a "series" and I want to somehow keep them in the order they should be read. I made a "Collection" for them but I can't get them to be in the order that they should always be so I can open my collection and know which book is book one. Any ideas on how to work around the sort option in collection? I have the Kindle 3. My e-mail address is herlis-sherri@juno.com if anyone has any ideas.

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11. 
    DanielleOctober 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM

    Anon, that's a great question.

    I have not tried this but I have seen other Kindle owners discuss the program Calibre.
    It's an e-book management program that you download to your computer, and you can move ebooks to and from your Kindle via the Kindle USB.

    I believe Calibre allows you to edit the names of your books, so allowing you to add numbers to the name. Then when you sort the collection by Title, they should appear in order.

    If you google Calibre, you can find it pretty easily, as well as reviews and discussions about it. Hope that helps!

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12. 
    AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:42 PM

    Hello all
    I just received a Kindle 3 and "Create a Collection" menu is grayed out.
    Why?
    Thanks

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13. 
    DanielleOctober 18, 2010 at 2:07 PM

    Hi anon!
    Congrats on getting your K3!

    It's my understanding that the Create a Collection option is only activated on i) a Kindle that is registered, and ii) has done its first sync.

    To check that it's registered, go to your account online with Amazon, or from your Kindle's Menu > settings.

    Good luck! Let me know how you get on.

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14. 
    AntónioOctober 19, 2010 at 1:09 PM

    Thanks for your explanation.
    I will try and let you know

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15. 
    MichaelOctober 21, 2010 at 6:42 PM

    Just reading your comment about Calibre... but isn't it possible to transfer and rename books just using the USB cable anyway? Why do you need special software for this?

    And a related question - renaming personal documents is obviously fine, but what happens if you rename a purchased book? Will it stil be recognised for online archiving, or for bookmark/note/etc synching?

    Apologies if I've posted this twice, I've not posted on here before and my first attempt didn't appear to show up :)

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    DanielleOctober 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    Hi Michael
    Changing the book name on your computer and then transferring doesn't have any affect on how it appears on your Kindle screen. I have no idea why.

    As for changing them and how it appears online archiving: I don't know and I will try to get an answer for that. I think note/ bookmark syncing would be fine for 2 reasons: the name of the book itself isn't what Kindle recognizes. I've tried to buy books that were updated and had their names changed, for example, but cannot as it says I already bought it. So there's some info within the ebook itself that Kindle recognizes.

    Also notes/ bookmarks that are saved in a ghost version of the ebook, that is specific to your Kindle. If you ever get a new Kindle, you cannot transfer your book and notes to it. A brand new version gets sent to that new Kindle and your notes/ bookmarks stay with that old version and old ghost file, again suggesting to me that title it irrelevant, there's something else in the file that is being recognized.

    I'll look into it though. I don't use Calibre, so I don't want to give any wrong info.

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17. 
    DeniseNovember 26, 2010 at 8:46 AM

    hi. i am currently in China and had difficulty with my lovely Kindle (2nd gen) and during a very long skype chat with Kindle Support had to reset my Kindle to the factory settings. Since I am in China I cannot register it and therefor cannot seem to use the collection feature which i desperately want to use. Any idea on how I can get my Kindle registered without a wireless 3G connection?? Thanks

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18. 
    DanielleNovember 26, 2010 at 1:53 PM

    Hi Denise
    Did you try the manual download? Instructions here:
    http://ereader1.blogspot.com/2010/06/kindle-25-update-manual-upload.html

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19. 
    AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 1:00 AM

    How do you delete a collection?

    ReplyDelete

20. 
    DanielleDecember 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM

    To delete a collection,
    go to the HOME page, scroll to the collection. Use the 5-way to click right, and you'll get options: Open, Add/ Remove, Rename and Delete.
    Scroll to DELETE and click the 5 way.

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21. 
    AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 10:14 PM

    I have a new Kindle 3 and am trying to create a collection. It is registered but I do not have a way to connect it to WI-FI. I live in the National Radio Quiet Zone and within 10 miles of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Therefore it is unlawful to have WI-FI.

    Does anyone know how to get around the requirement stated above to make a sync?
    I download all my books from my computer over the USB.

    Thank You

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22. 
    DanielleDecember 13, 2010 at 9:14 AM

    If WiFi and 3G are banned in the area, the only options I know are by USB. When you are out of area, you can do a sync. I did that for a while with my 3G-only Kindle 2. I had no 3G signal at my home for the first few months of 2009, so I would take my Kindle into town with me and sync from there once a month or so.

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23. 
    AnonymousDecember 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    Danielle the reason that just changing the filename doesn't work is that the Kindle isn't actually showing you filenames when you look at your books, it is showing you the metadata information that is stored within the book file. That is why you need a special program to change the information.

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24. 
    AnonymousJanuary 7, 2011 at 4:20 PM

    Hi,

    I recently replaced my Kindle, and I'm having trouble reorganizing...

    I've added about 26 titles to a a collection I've named Classics. When I go Classics>Add/Remove Items, I see a screen full of the already added items.

    How add the remaining 20 Classic titles without having to go to each individual book?

    It says Page 1 of 6 at the bottom of the screen, but there seems to be no way to advance to Page 2 of 6, etc.

    The directional arrows don't do anything, Home sends you home, Menu gives Turn Wireless off, Shop, and Add All Items on this Page (they're already added).

    It's probably something obvious... Thanks for any help!

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25. 
    DanielleJanuary 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    Hi, when you are at the screen that shows page 1 of 6, use the Next Page button to turn, not the directional arrows. That should do it for you.

    You can also sort that page by title/ author by scrolling to the top and clicking right.

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    JessJune 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    I always put my books in collections, especially if they are part of a series, with more info on the book itself (I use Calibre and LOVE it!). For example, If I am putting Nora Robert's Sign of Seven Trilogy into a collection it looks like this: Nora Roberts (Sign of Seven) Within the collection itself I have edited the metadata in Calibre to show which book number it is in what series so that if it is not in a collection or I am adding a lot at a time I know where to place it. So the books would show as "Blood Brothers [Sign of Seven 1]. Doing it this way allows me to go straight to whatever series I feel like reading instead of viewing all of a certain author.

    Calibre has an option to put the series its in and book number but it doesn't transfer to the Kindle that way, which is why I place series and book number in the title. The other benefit of Calibre is if you have a PDF file or books in other formats, you can convert them to be read on the Kindle (if there is no DRM on the book itself).

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    AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 11:50 PM

    I love the point of opening the collection and then adding books. This is so much quicker for adding all the chapters from college text books. Thanks very much.

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    FunaekSeptember 28, 2011 at 10:10 PM

    Is there any way to organize the archive or search in it? When I try searching in it I only get results from my device collections. I like moving books I'm not going to read anytime soon into the archive, but now I have a growing and unwieldy list in there!

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    DanielleSeptember 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    Hi Funaek,
    You can organize Archives by Author or By Title, alphabetically. Scroll to top then 5way right to get to the options.
    Then to quickly find a book, type a letter and click the 5 way enter (center) to go to that part of the alphabet.

    I am also using the PC App which allows me to organize my archives into collections:
    
    http://ereader1.blogspot.com/2011/09/kindle-for-pc-organizing-and-importing.html

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    EmilyFebruary 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM

    Just to tweak Jess' idea above a bit about series - I too have collections for series on my K3, and I use Calibre. But when I change the title in the metadata with Calibre, I put the series name first - i.e. in her example I'd name it SoS 01 - Blood Brothers. That way when I open the collection, the books show in order. (I put a zero in front of digits 1-9, otherwise they'll sort incorrectly if there are more than 9 in a series.) Not saying my way is better, just another option. ;-)

    I now also have a K4 and I'm treating things a bit differently. Instead of separate collections for series and/or authors, I only have 4 collections: Next in Series, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Samples. I read a lot of series, so I just keep whatever's the next book in a given series on the K4. The rest are in Calibre for me to move over when I'm ready. Keeps my Home Page a lot cleaner. I haven't moved all the fiction & non-fiction over from Calibre yet, but I've got the ones that are highest on my want-to-read list - I have a serious case of EBHD - E-Book Hoarding Disorder. So Calibre is definitely my friend.

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DanielleFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Thanks for sharing that Emily.
I too have changed my collection habits a bit, though I use the App for PC rather than Calibre.

On my kindle I have colelctions:
To Be Read this year
Unread
Done
Non-fiction
Current
Other

Then I sort on the pc, in big batches. I think calibre is more powerful probably.

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UnknownJune 19, 2012 at 10:45 PM

I just recently got the Kindle Touch and I really love it. I even got it organized the right way from reading this blog. My only problem is the numbering of the collections. They went in order of how I wanted them up to #9..However when I went to number a 10th collection it went under the 1st collection rather that after the 9th collection..Anyway to get around this? It goes #1, #10, #2 etc.

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DanielleJune 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM

Hi

Yes, there is a way around it. Unlike Kindle Keyboard (where sort by collections is done by most recent), on the Kindle Touch collections are sorted alphabetically.

So, 10 is before 2.

Try one of these

i) number then #01 #02 #03... #09, #10 etc
ii) letter them: A, B, C etc

Hope that helps!

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