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* In the seventh arc of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', Will attends Beatrice's {{spoiler|funeral}}. In her {{spoiler|coffin, there is no body}}, just a book. When Will opens the book, the pages turn to petals. It's later shown that the book contains Battler's {{spoiler|final iteration of what happened during the Rokkenjima murders - an iteration that is only to be shared between himself and Beatrice}}.

* In ''[[Grant MorrisonsMorrison's Batman]]'', the Joker's Joke Book is supposedly written in an ink that only the insane can read. It's intentionally unclear whether this is literally true, or simply a way of saying a crazy person will ''imagine'' there's writing in it. Either way, to most people, it's a Blank Book.

* Happens at the beginning of ''[[Inception]]'' when Cobb steals the documents from the vault inside SaitosSaito's dream. When Saito catches on that someone is trying to steal his secret memories, he checks the documents in the vault to find literal Blank Pages placed there by Cobb. But now that Saito is aware that someones going through his memories, the pages in the document stolen by Cobb have most of the content blackened out, as Saito tries to block him out of his subconsciousness.

* This happened with ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' in the film version of ''[[Sphere]]''. It wasntwasn't blank, but just stopped where the reader was too scared to read past that page while he was a child.

* In the book ''[[Conrad's Time Machine]]'', the inventor had huge shelves of "effectively 100%" original first edition books. Effectively 100% in such way that all books he or anyone else had and will read, glance though or ''touch'' isare real first edition books. What is actually there is around 0.1% real first edition books and rest isare just titled blank books.

* There's a variant on the social climber's "Prop Books" in ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' that [[Does This Count?|may or may not be worth noting here]]: Gatsby's library is full of real books—but the pages are left uncut, meaning he doesn't actually ''read'' them. Owl-Eyes notices this and calls Gatsby "a regular [[wikipedia:David Belasco#Influence on American theatre|Belasco]]", complimenting him on the thoroughness of the illusion.

* ''[[The Historian]]'' by Elizabeth Kostova features several books that are blank except for a picture of a dragon in the middle.

* inIn ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'', one of the devotaries (religious orders) uses a blank book called ''The Book of Endless Pages'' as a metaphor, -- the book cannot be filled because there is always more to learn.

** 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.

** ''The Tome of the Pah'Wraiths'' is a forbidden and blasphemous text in the Bajoran faith. But when it is opened, the pages are all blank, confounding those who would seek the evil knowledge within. Only after {{spoiler|a virtuous man is murdered while trying to keep the book from evil hands and his blood drips onto the pages}} does the actual text appear. Even, then only the [[Chosen One]] of the Pah'Wraith can actually read it; anyone else who tries risks being supernaturally blinded.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''"The Big Bang''", Amy is given River Song's diary as a wedding present. However, the book is blank {{spoiler|because the Doctor has been erased from time. Once Amy remembers the Doctor and brings him back, the diary's contents return.}}

* Lampshaded in ''[[Ninth Elsewhere]]'':

** {{quote|"''How ridiculous, my own subconscious is mocking my goals.''"}}

* In [http://xkcd.com/971/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic, a man has a shelf full of blank books, which he uses to make a profound point about imagination. His friend simply asks, [[Con Man|"Who sold you all these blank books?"]] The alt text reveals the comic is actually a metaphor for homeopathic and "alternative" medicine.

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|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).

* ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures|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.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|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.