Did a e book immediately disappear out of your Kindle? Methods to repair it quick

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A glitch can take away books from the Kindle, exhibiting an “Merchandise Not Accessible” 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 e book from the library to repair the error, or contact Kindle Help if the problem persists.

The Kindle household of e-readers supply a very spectacular solution to learn, regardless of whether or not

reading comics and graphic novels
. Nonetheless, like several tech gadget, 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 Accessible” message on the display.

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

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

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

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Take away the e book that’s producing the error message

Eliminate the offending file

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

The picture of the e book will nonetheless be in your Kindle, however it’ll 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 ultimately, 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 could truly energy off, restart, and reboot your gadget. To repair this situation, you will must 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 gadget or flip the display 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 may let go of the button. The gadget will then reboot, which can 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 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 e book 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 e book ought to be restored in only a few moments.

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