[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by a_whale

huh, well that's kind of discouraging. it's not the button clicking itself, it's coming from inside the device and it happens just when the screen goes black to refresh. the tick is pretty audible from reading distance, and if I put my ear right up to it I can hear a whirry-squeaky sound from the hard drive at the same time. somebody on amazon has the exact same thing so I hope it doesn't mean the drive is about to fail or something.

I share your concern about hard drive failure. That's why I am glad the Kindle doesn't have one.

You are correct, though. The Kindle does make a sound. I never noticed before because my Kindle is virtually silent. I had to hold it up to my ear in order to hear it.

If you can hear the sound when holding the kindle at arms length, then your Kindle is in some way defective. It was probably assembled wrong.