Originally Posted by Anika Hanson:
“I think the Sony readers are (were) prone to crashing a lot anyway. The latest models maybe more stable but from my experiences and those of others with the older Sony readers they weren't very stable!”
Yeah, on my PRS300 all it took was to display a couple of cover pictures and it went down

It took ages to restart with ~200 books, too, turning pages was just barely at the right side of acceptable... PRS600 I had before was better with loading and page turning, but it still used to crash when displaying pictures. Probably the same firmware.