[The Alternative]

From my own experience I can tell you that if you have loaded up the reader with books (filled the internal memory) and then loaded a memory card with many more books you WILL have problems with slow loading, turning on, etc. It seems the machine wants to read through all the titles before completing any functions (such as sizing, etc.) If you have a lot of content on the reader this could cause the slowness of the machine. I suggest putting only a few books at a time into the internal memory and re-testing the functions.