How to delete books from the library

Hello,

I have tried everything to delete some (actually: the majority) of the book in my library as I never ordered or asked for them.

However, there seems to be no way to do that, neither in the desktop nor the online or the mobile app which to me doesn't seem very user friendly, no?

Would anyone know how to do it or is it really not possible?

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Graham Criddle

We can't actually delete books - to do that you would need to contact Customer Services and request they remove the licences from your account

You can hide books which removes them from your Logos library while giving you the option to restore them.

You can remove books which removes them from your local drive and moves them to the Logos cloud - but they will appear in your library and can show up in searches.

I'm intrigued, though, how did you end up with a lot of books you didn't order or ask for? (Unless you are seeing this on mobile where access to some free books are made available by Logos)

Dave Hooton

Check which books are temporary in Library (on Desktop):

It will give you an idea of what is fluff on mobile where you only see the total number of books.

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Graham Criddle

We can't actually delete books - to do that you would need to contact Customer Services and request they remove the licences from your account

You can hide books which removes them from your Logos library while giving you the option to restore them.

You can remove books which removes them from your local drive and moves them to the Logos cloud - but they will appear in your library and can show up in searches.

I'm intrigued, though, how did you end up with a lot of books you didn't order or ask for? (Unless you are seeing this on mobile where access to some free books are made available by Logos)

Dave Hooton

Check which books are temporary in Library (on Desktop):

It will give you an idea of what is fluff on mobile where you only see the total number of books.

Marcel R. Bernhardsgruetter

Thanks a lot, dear Dave and Graham. It shows 117 temporary books and 47 permanent.

I'm intrigued, though, how did you end up with a lot of books you didn't order or ask for? (Unless you are seeing this on mobile where access to some free books are made available by Logos)

This is exactly what I am also wondering as I have no explanation. I even have books in foreign languagues and of endless subjects I am not interested in … :-). It's a bit as if I'd get all free kindle books delivered on my kindle device with no possibility to delete them and being left with a messy library.

Have a blessed day!

Marcel R. Bernhardsgruetter

By the way and funny enough … While 117 plus 47 equals 164, the total number of books in my library is 255…

And really no way to get rid of any of them. Would be interesting to know what was the programmer's logic in this.

Graham Criddle

By the way and funny enough … While 117 plus 47 equals 164, the total number of books in my library is 255…

Can you post a screenshot showing this information?

And really no way to get rid of any of them. Would be interesting to know what was the programmer's logic in this.

I guess partly the thinking was that if we buy books we are unlikely to want to delete them. If we want to remove them from our libraries we can hide them as I outlined above.

And if we were to have the ability to delete them, there would be a mismatch between the licences we held in our account and the actual books we had. That could cause confusion in some scenarios.

If there are books we have purchased and we do want to totally delete them - so we will never be able to access them again - we can contact Customer Services and request that they do that for us.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1376863#Comment_1376863

With my Free Edition of Logos I have 132 Temp and 37 permanent = 169 on Desktop. The total in Web App = 254! So nothing unusual with your setup (Web App gave me 87 without a Logos Account).

If you have the latest v44 of Logos Desktop you may see something like this when you click Account

Note that my main Toolbar is on Top as yours may on the Left.

Marcel R. Bernhardsgruetter

Dear both, thanks again for your great support. Have enclosed what Dave has already mentioned (see the 255 in total in the web version and below the 164 books in the app's library), so I will not worry and continue by hiding the boos. Thanks a lot, Graham, for the inside and the logics. Now I know how to handle!