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    Removing 800+ New York Times Audio Digests from Amazon's "Your Content"

I recently started using family sharing to share audiobooks with my family and partner.
I wanted to manually select which audiobooks to share by visiting Amazon's "Your content" page.
When I visited that page, to my horror, I had ~800 New York Times Audio Digest "audiobooks",
one every day for the past ~2 years, to which I never listened.
These entries crowded out my actual audiobooks, making it unfeasible to actually choose and share anything.
Amazon's page also makes it very difficult to clean this up:

There's no "Select All" functionality
You can only select 10 items at a time for bulk actions

Here is a quick script that automates deleting these audio digest entries in groups of 10:
  var nytimes = function() { jQuery("div[title=' The New York Times']").slice(0, 10).click() }
  var del = function() { jQuery('span:contains("Delete")').click() }
  var confirm = function() { jQuery("span:contains(' Yes, Delete permanently')").click() }
  var ok = function() { jQuery('span:contains(" OK")').click() }

  var sequence = function(steps, timeout, callback) { 
    var step = 0;
    var f = function() {
      setTimeout(function() { 
        steps[step]();
        step += 1;
        if (step >= steps.length) { 
          callback();
        } 
        else { 
          f();
        }
      }, timeout);
    }
    f();
  }

  var deleteLoop = function() {
    sequence([
      nytimes,
      del,
      confirm,
      ok
    ], 2000, deleteLoop);
  };

  deleteLoop();
First, make sure that you unsubscribe from these daily digests by following Audible's instructions.
Then, paste the above script into the console in the "Your content" page. It should start running automatically.
Note: The page will usually autoload the next entries, but sometimes it doesn't, or there are no audio digest entries left.
In this case, I recommend manually searching "The New York Times" in the right sidebar and the script will automatically resume.