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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does this invalid ASIN error come up if you have WiFi off?
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I didn't try this, I keep WiFi always on and never had any problems before.
A chap calling himself Rwilliams120 writes in the Amazon forum thread:
... But I may have found the root cause and a quicker workaround. It seems that there is a new menu item if you push the three dots next to the book in your library on your Kindle The very top menu item is now " see in store ". I think that a recent update of the software is forcing the first time you open a book to take you to the Kindle store based on the ASIN And if you have an invalid number it gets stuck in a loop and won't let you out of the store. So with that venue open I pushed the "go to " selection and it took me into the book and I was able to navigate to the first page of the story after which I was able to back out of the book and go straight back into the book where I left off. This appears to skip the first opening routine that sends you to the Kindle store. That is what Amazon Kindle software gurus need to fix. Stop pushing us to the Kindle store the first time we open a book. We know how to go to the Kindle store if we want to browser buy a book. Don't force it on first opening.
I have now successfully opened 3rd party sideloaded books and books that I have pushed to my Kindle library by using the menu selection " go to " on several books so I am satisfied that this will continue to work as a workaround until Amazon stops pushing us to the Kindle store by default the first time you open a book on your Kindle. I hope this helps everybody that's having this problem.
So there you go. A bug is a bug is a bug...
Greetings from Germany,
Ralph