Thanks for your reply
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With the risk of souding weird, I couldn't even do the regular reset. I tried and all it did was make the start page freeze and an orange light started blinking. I couldn't switch it off, change to another page, reset properly... after an hour or so of feeling frustrated I handed it to my colleague, he pressed the reset button (for a normal reset) and it reset no worries. So to the weird part, I am now wondering if it could be possible that maybe I am charged with too much static electricity and maybe that's why electronic gadgets act up on me now matter how careful I am with them...
Anyway, I am afraid you might be right... because when I hooked my reader up to my PC at work I think it did say something about a possible hardware problem =o/ . I will be optimistic and try once more now that it was reset normally, but I guess I might have to do the hard reset
(or get someone else to do it for me since that seems to work better). (Which will suck because it will be bye bye to a lot of ebooks
)