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Old 07-12-2012, 01:31 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by thevidyy View Post
Everything was fine with my kindle 4 until I opened up a book (it may have been a corrupted file?). It froze, I tried restarting it with the power button, it hard rebooted itself (which means I've lost all my books on the device) and I can't get it past the "Setup Complete" stage of the reboot. It's frozen right on the page.
It sounds like you were using your K to store all your books instead of keeping copies on your computer's HDD. I hope this wasn't the case . . . if so, this advice may be too late for you, this time, but I strongly recommend using Calibre or even just your computer's file management system to maintain your e-book library. Just because you can put thousands of books on an e-reader doesn't mean you don't need to back them up somewhere else.

And I wouldn't rely on Amazon to do this for you. Personally, I don't want Amazon tracking everything I read (including public domain books, personal files, library books) so I delete everything from their cloud storage except books and magazines purchased through them.

Good luck -- given the age of your device, it's highly likely that Amazon's great customer service will either fix or replace it.
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