My Kindle is going crazy!

The kid reading under the tree with a loading bar is the Kindle's boot screen. It's just like the little 'loading' bar on Windows XP, or the glowing Windows logo on Vista or Win7, or the Apple logo with the little spinny bit beneath it on a Mac, or the starbust on a Google Nexus phone, or the glowing red eye on a Droid, etc.

It's possible you turned the Kindle entirely off rather than putting it into sleep mode the night before by mistake. (This involves holding the on/off switch in the 'off' position for a long time... I think it's 5 seconds, but I may be wrong... rather than just flicking it.) However, the fact that it lost your page position suggests to me that something may have caused your Kindle to crash.

Generally the Kindle is pretty solid, but it /is/ running software (in Java, specifically) and there is the potential for it to crash and need to be rebooted. If you have a Kindle 3, the one thing that comes to mind is if you have a leather case with the built-in booklight; certain ones won't fit quite right, and if the connection isn't solid it CAN crash when the case and Kindle try to talk to each other.

This doesn't seem /common/ (it's never happened to me, and I use my Kindle 3 on a daily basis), but it has affected some people and Amazon's owned up to the problem. The good news is that if this /does/ prove to be the problem, Amazon /will/ replace the case/Kindle if necessary.

Anything beyond that, you'd probably need to provide more information about which Kindle model, whether you had the wireless enabled at the time, etc.

Please post back and let us know what happened.

The Kindle (K2 at least, which I had) does have the reboot problem. It has to rebuild the database and resync. But if you have already synced your books and "last read" points, the reload/resync should work fine.

Belle_91 said:

After I finished reading, I hit "Home" and then after a few hours had gone by, I opened up my Kindle again. Hit the book I was read and......it had saved my page

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Great news.

Mine is doing the same thing. They sent me a new one and at first it seemed fine but now it has started doing it too! It's driving me nuts, yesterday it rebooted three times in one hour. I can't use it like this. My husband has one and it's working fine.

mine was doing that. turned out it was the cover I had bought (the leather one without lights) without that cover it does fine now. Amazon refunded me the price of the cover and gave me $25 toward the cost of a new one. I was quite happy