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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Completely wild shot in the dark.. perhaps you've got the text & background color are the same? I realize that wouldn't freeze the location info, but it is the only thing I can imagine at the moment.

Is this book in MOBI/AZW3 format? I know lots of folks were having issues with that format recently. Some kind of error which requires re-converting and using the other format/extension to get around the problem.

Originally Posted by travger

Some things to try:

1. See if you can highlight the text in the viewer.
2. Try to convert into some other format, for example epub (and you can unzip that if you want to check the code, or compare with other epubs to check for odd files)
3. If you unzip the epub, try to open one of the html-s with the browser.

Though the fact that only Calibre viewer balks at the text makes me doubt that #1 gives any results.

Wild shots are seemingly a good thing in this case... at least you're offering something I haven't tried yet! But no joy.... I haven't modified text/background colors, and I tried selecting random parts of the blank page and saw nothing.

The book format is MOBI. While I understand trying to convert it *might* help, if the Calibre e-book viewer doesn't see anything, will the Calibre converter find anything to convert (rhetorical question)?

BUT IT DOES!!! I just completed the conversion to EPUB, and the Calibre viewer shows everything just fine!! (So yours was a great suggestion!)

I also just converted MOBI to MOBI.... now I'm seeing for formats: EPUB, MOBI, ORIGINAL_MOBI. The ORIGINAL_MOBI still shows up as blank. The EPUB and MOBI both show text!!!

A kazillion years ago I was a programmer. (Do you guys these days even know what assembly language is?) So I have an understanding of the complexities involved. From my perspective I'm always amazed that any of this stuff actually works, let alone works as well as Calibre!! Yes, that is my compliment to the developers!