UnKindled

[stoutfellow]

I am becoming seriously annoyed with my Kindle.

This is new behavior, only appearing today, but it has become extremely sluggish, responding very slowly to a "next page" tap. After only a few page-turns, the next tap results in Kindle's version of a reboot; it eventually returns to the front page - the list of documents on the machine - but, when I tap on the book I was reading, I am returned to the first page of the chapter, not to the last page I had read. This is happening with PG books and with purchased books. (I'm also getting frequent, unexplained "The selected application could not be started" messages. What application? The "let me read this book" application?)

Does anyone know what could be causing this behavior, and/or what can be done about it? If this keeps up, I may have to switch to a different e-reader.(Everything I have, I have on my home computer, cataloged with Calibre.)

Addendum: And, of course, as soon as I publicly complained, the misbehavior ceased. Still, if anyone has comments to offer, I'd like to hear them, in case of a recurrence.

Comments

[mmegaera]

I wonder if you somehow gave it a virus. That's the only thing I can think of. I've had my Kindle for several years now, and except for spontaneously rebooting on several occasions (which only took a minute and didn't mess anything else), I've never had a problem [knocks wood].

[stoutfellow]

The only computer I've connected it to in the last, oh, seven months is my home computer - and I'm very careful about hygiene on that one. Katrina suggests possible software or hardware failure; if it happens again, she says I should try resetting to factory defaults and reloading everything from Calibre. If that doesn't work, I'll have to get a new reader.

:grmph:

[mmegaera]

I would definitely take Katrina's advice over mine, considering how many times she's rescued me from computer woes. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again, or if it does, that resetting it helps.