Did a guide instantly disappear out of your Kindle? The right way to repair it quick

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A glitch can take away books from the Kindle, displaying an “Merchandise Not Obtainable” 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 supply a very spectacular technique to learn, irrespective of whether or not

reading comics and graphic novels
. Nonetheless, like all tech machine, they are not immune from glitches, and one significantly nasty one has been identified to completely take away books from Kindle units seemingly with out warning, whereas flashing an “Merchandise Not Obtainable” 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 immediately from Amazon by the Kindle Retailer.

If this occurs to you, fret not. Your content material is not really gone and fixing this difficulty is definitely pretty straightforward due to the Kindle’s cloud-saved library. This is how one can repair it in lower than 5 minutes.

As a result of you can be including and eradicating a obtain out of your machine, your Kindle will must be related 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 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 to open the file when you choose it, as a substitute prompting you to obtain it as a substitute. Which you will 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, it’s possible you’ll not know which you can really energy off, restart, and reboot your machine. To repair this difficulty, you will have to do a full reboot, which solely takes a couple of minutes.

To begin 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 brand flash and that is when you possibly can let go of the button. The machine will then reboot, which is able to take two to 3 minutes, throughout which period you will see a progress bar.

As soon as the reboot is full, you will 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 quilt, opening up the menu. Choose the Obtain possibility from the menu and your guide ought to be restored in just some 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 difficulty. Contact Kindle Assist and if that is certainly the case, you could possibly request a refund for the guide.