[neilmarr]

Mille thanks for your time and thoughtful advice, Dreams. I've removed most books from the reader now so that there are only a couple of dozen left. The problem persists.

As a last ditch bid before I return the PRS to the shop in the UK (merely scrapping it would be much easier), I'd like to try to format the internal memory with a hard re-set as you and other pals here have suggested. But if you see how this process must start, you'll realise that there's still a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.

**** If the device is on, slide the "Power" so that it turns off.***

That I cannot turn off is the very problem I'm trying to fix!

'Tis a three-pipe puzzle, Dr Watson.

Best. Neil