Fix: Some Books Download with Blank Pages
February 29, 2012I recently heard about a problem that some Kindle Fire users are experiencing. It seems that some books have blank pages after being downloaded. If you are experiencing this problem, first and foremost, don’t post a bad review of the book! The problem isn’t with the eBook. It’s a problem with the Kindle Fire, and Amazon is aware of it. Here’s how you can fix it.
The first thing you should do is unregister your Kindle Fire. By doing that, it removes your Kindle Fire’s association with your Amazon account. To do that, follow these steps.
- Tap the Settings icon. (It’s the little gear in the upper-right corner.)
- Tap More.
- Tap My Account.
- Tap the Deregister button.
After you do this, your Kindle Fire will be unregistered and the button will change to a Register button. Click the Register button to register your Kindle Fire to your Amazon.com account. You’ll need to enter your Amazon credentials.
After you do this, any apps you had installed will remain on your device, but you’ll need to re-download any books that were on the device before you unregistered it. (Don’t worry. Whispersync will restore your reading position in your books.)
I hope this resolves this problem for anyone experiencing it.
- Jim
I have seen occasional blank pages, but found the text is not really missing. If I exit the book and restart it, the missing text appears when I get to the former “BLANK” page.
John P
Also, as I just discovered, if you have your Kindle Fire set to display white text with a black background, the text will appear on the ‘missing’ pages if you switch back to using black text with a light background.
Hey worked for me. Thanks
Awesome, thanks. I have searched for half an hour to find a solution.
Read actual books! Because, what if you run out of baterty, will you just have to stop reading? With actual books, you can read for however long you want. And what if something goes wrong with the Kindle, like it breaks or something? With actual books, you can’t break a book, you can tear a page but you can just tape it back. Books are meant to be read on paper, not a screen. That’s how it always has been until the invention of e-books which are silly. Don’t we people get enough screens and buttons in our lives? Why must we read books on screens, that’s like the only thing left that people read on paper. Hell, even newspapers are starting to go down because people read the news on their computers.It doesn’t count to read a book on a screen and call yourself an avid reader. I think it would be sad to see books totally die out so please, can you help keep books alive by not buying an e-book? Please? Aside from the benefit of its size and weight, the Kindle is a manufactured product, which means that the Kindle not only takes up natural resources to produce the end product, but that the Kindle is made with human hands, Chinese hands to be more specific. Is the Kindle a fair-trade product? Were the hands that produced this luxury for Americans treated justly, humanely and respectfully? Were they given a fair price for the work done, a safe environment to work in, fair labor hours? Are the people who labor over our products treated well? What of the cost of transporting thousands of Kindles from Asia to America? What of the cost of packaging and delivering the same product into the hands of the consumers once in America? While it’s true that most everything we do requires energy consumption, one must take into consideration the things behind the scenes. For example, one can download a book from Amazon in 60 seconds flat. How does that book get from Amazon’s library to your Kindle? By their Whispernet technology, a wireless coverage in all 50 states… just think of all that energy expended to supply Kindle followers of unlimited entertainment. Or how about the baterty installed in each Kindle? Amazon thoughtfully installed a rechargeable baterty, but one must use power to recharge that said baterty. Where does that electricity come from? ~RasberryHat