[DJ38]

I have had the same problem with my Kindle, in fact it's always been difficult to get it to work from new. The problem began only after reading the first book and so I thought it was just me. It's unresponsive, it just seems to have gone worse, so I tried removing all the books - just the same. It's impossible to get into settings or home page but you can still select a book as it always seems to open on the library page. It will open a book and let you read it perfectly well, but at the end of the book it locks up solid and only messing about and resetting it eventually gets you back to the library page. So you can just remove the book, add a new one via the USB from your PC and read it, forget about the menu bar it never responds to it.

Very odd to me that it refuses to let you into settings or any of the top menu's. I have done the manual factory reset (as you can't get into settings and also doing the 40 seconds on the power button never resets it) save a blank .txt file in the route directory named " DO_FACTORY_RESTORE " remove the .txt then hold the power button for 40 seconds.

I wondered if this was a built in "time out" so they force you to buy a new one and so decided not to let it connect to wi-fi but of course, they stop you using it unless you first register via wi-fi. I have now done the full manual factory reset and it updated the software itself but still the menu's are unresponsive.

I purchased a new Kindle for myself as this was / is my partners. I noticed my brand new Kindle also became unresponsive at the end of the first book. These things are really terrible, it doesn't make sense as Amazon make money from selling the books, so why would they stop us from using them, they must make more money on book sales in the life of the device from most users.

I didn't want to buy a kindle for myself but there's only the KOBO and only just noticed a model priced just over £100. We need somebody to make a decent eReader so we can forget Amazon, shame, as it was such a good idea!