Did a guide all of a sudden disappear out of your Kindle? repair it quick

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A glitch can take away books from the Kindle, displaying an “Merchandise Not Out there” message, however no panic wanted.
Delete the offending file, reboot the Kindle by lengthy urgent the sleep/wake button, after which restore content material.
Re-download the guide from the library to repair the error, or contact Kindle Assist if the problem persists.

The Kindle household of e-readers provide a very spectacular method to learn, irrespective of whether or not

reading comics and graphic novels
. Nonetheless, like every tech machine, they are not immune from glitches, and one notably nasty one has been identified to completely take away books from Kindle units seemingly with out warning, whereas flashing an “Merchandise Not Out there” message on the display screen.

This error appears to happen spontaneously, and may occur whether or not you ship your individual ePub information to your Kindle or buy books straight from Amazon by the Kindle Retailer.

If this occurs to you, fret not. Your content material is not truly gone and fixing this problem is definitely pretty straightforward because of the Kindle’s cloud-saved library. Here is easy methods to repair it in lower than 5 minutes.

As a result of you may be including and eradicating a obtain out of your machine, your Kindle will must be linked to Wi-Fi throughout this course of.

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Take away the guide that’s producing the error message

Do away with the offending file

Step one in the direction of getting your guide again is by deleting the offending file out of your machine. To do that, merely faucet the three dots subsequent to the guide after which choose Take away obtain.

The picture of the guide will nonetheless be in your Kindle, however it is going to now not try and open the file when you choose it, as an alternative prompting you to obtain it as an alternative. Which you may do finally, however not but.

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Reboot your Kindle

Simply turning it on and off once more will not work right here

As a result of Kindles have such lengthy battery lives, you could not know you can truly energy off, restart, and reboot your machine. To repair this problem, you may have to do a full reboot, which solely takes a couple of minutes.

To start out the method, lengthy press the sleep/wake button on the backside of your unit for ten seconds. You will see a pop-up that prompts you to restart your machine or flip the display screen off (as seen above). Ignore this pop-up and proceed holding the button. You will then see the Kindle emblem flash and that is when you’ll be able to let go of the button. The machine will then reboot, which is able to take two to 3 minutes, throughout which period you may see a progress bar.

As soon as the reboot is full, you may see your acquainted house display screen as soon as once more.

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Restore your content material out of your library

Now’s the time to hit that obtain button

As soon as your Kindle has rebooted, discover the guide that was inflicting points and press the three dots on the duvet, opening up the menu. Choose the Obtain possibility from the menu and your guide needs to be restored in only a few moments.

It is uncommon, but when your guide nonetheless is not opening, and you’ve got bought it from the Kindle Retailer, there could also be a licensing problem. Contact Kindle Assist and if that is certainly the case, you could possibly request a refund for the guide.