[CuriousJay]

My KindlePaperwhite is suddenly displaying zero items: "My Items (0)"

I've done some reading over past forum posts and it seems the simplest way to fix this problem would be to wipe the Kindle. I could do that, but I'm also kind of curious about *why* it happened and if there is any clever trick I can use to force the Kindle to re-index the books that are on it to properly display them.

Here's the situation:

I read the Kindle a few days ago. It was fine.

I added two or three books via Calibre last night. I'm pretty sure I didn't properly eject the Kindle, I just waited for it to finish transferring the files and pulled the USB cord. I open the Kindle and see "My Items (0)".

Out of curiosity, I jumped into my "Cloud" list and pulled down a book from Amazon. Curiously, I can open the book and read it from Cloud view, but it never shows up in Device view (where it still shows "My Items (0)".

If I mount the device on my computer Calibre (and the regular file explorer) both show the device is still full of books: both the Calibre loaded books and the official Amazon books.

I read in a post or two that sometimes a bad conversion can cause a hangup, so I deleted the three books I had recently loaded. No change.

Is there anyway to force the Kindle to reindex its contents? Like I said, I know I can just wipe the device and do it over, but I'm really curious to see if there is a way to fix the issue without a total wipe. Thanks!