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[[File:BatmanTASBlankBook_405.jpg|link=Batman ~~the~~ Animated Series (Animation)|right|The proofreader ''really'' needs to lay off the sauce.]]

[[File:BatmanTASBlankBook_405.jpg|link=Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|right|The proofreader ''really'' needs to lay off the sauce.]]

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* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''The Keeper'', the protagonist tries to restore a decayed journal, but a "word spider(?)" got into the word-restoring tupperware the book was in and caused the words to literally drip off the book, much to her horror.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'', Tom Riddle's diary is effectively blank until someone writes into it. After {{spoiler|Harry destroys it with the Basilisk venom, it goes blank for good, though not before ''bleeding ink.''}}

* Played with in the final trilogy of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. Richard finds a book that is supposedly a user manual for his unique and powerful form of magic, which has always worked entirely on instinct, as he has nobody around to teach him how to properly use it. Unfortunately, when he tries to read the book, it's blank, which at first he takes as being because he's lost his magic, as the series has previously established that magic books are charmed so that if you don't have magic, they appear blank. At the same time, the Chainfire spell has also been shown erasing other books, so the reader might attribute the blank pages to that instead. Eventually, however, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the book was meant to be blank, and represents the [[The Un Reveal|final, unspoken Wizard's Rule.]]}}

* Played with in the final trilogy of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. Richard finds a book that is supposedly a user manual for his unique and powerful form of magic, which has always worked entirely on instinct, as he has nobody around to teach him how to properly use it. Unfortunately, when he tries to read the book, it's blank, which at first he takes as being because he's lost his magic, as the series has previously established that magic books are charmed so that if you don't have magic, they appear blank. At the same time, the Chainfire spell has also been shown erasing other books, so the reader might attribute the blank pages to that instead. Eventually, however, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the book was meant to be blank, and represents the [[The Un-Reveal|final, unspoken Wizard's Rule.]]}}

* In the ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' [[Prequel]] ''The Andalite Chronicles,'' the Time Matrix creates a miniature universe based on the memories of Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three. Elfangor leafs through a book in Loren's faux bedroom and notes that it ends halfway through; he reasons Loren didn't finish the book's real-world counterpart, giving her mind nothing to fill in for the rest.

* ''[[Thursday Next|The Great Samuel-Pepys Fiasco]]''

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* When Willow's [[Super Powered Evil Side]] emerges in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', she absorbs the text from all the magic shop's books on dark magic. Her friends later try to find out about the magic she's using, but the books are now blank.

* When Willow's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] emerges in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', she absorbs the text from all the magic shop's books on dark magic. Her friends later try to find out about the magic she's using, but the books are now blank.

** Another Buffy the Vampire Slayer example: The book used to seal [[Mailer Daemon|Moloch]] was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet.

* In ''[[Dark Oracle]]'' the eponymous comic book would inevitably arrive with most of the pages blank. As the episode progressed, pages would fill in, eventually revealing whichever horrific future Cally and Lance had to avert.

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Batman ~~the~~ Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', {{spoiler|when Bruce Wayne was trapped by the Mad Hatter in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]],}} one of his first clues something was wrong with the perfect world was that all the books were unreadable. (Hence the page image).

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', {{spoiler|when Bruce Wayne was trapped by the Mad Hatter in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]],}} one of his first clues something was wrong with the perfect world was that all the books were unreadable. (Hence the page image).

* The ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]'' cartoon had an episode where Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, and Flash got transported to an alternate universe where the Silver Age heroes John Stewart read about as a boy are real. Midway through, John gets suspicious that the world isn't all it seems, and goes to a library, where he finds all the books are blank.

* ''[[Jonny Quest the Real Adventures (Animation)|Jonny Quest the Real Adventures]]'': Villain Ezekiel Rage constantly quotes from "The Book of Rage". When Jessie finds it, she discovers it's completely blank except for a picture of Rage's dead family.

* ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'': Sought-after [[Great Big Book of Everything]] and [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate|Tome of Prophecy and Fate]] the Book of Omens, at least, in its appearance as a ''book.'' {{spoiler|It's actually a [[Magitek]] computer}}

* ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': For some reason, the Kanker sisters have a shelf of blank books in their trailer. [[Nerd|Edd]] seems to have a minor freakout when he discovers this.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': For some reason, the Kanker sisters have a shelf of blank books in their trailer. [[Nerd|Edd]] seems to have a minor freakout when he discovers this.

== [[Real Life]] ==