Mine did that last time, just stopped in the middle of a sentence! The first two times, I got an audible low battery warning, but not last time. And if you just charge it for 4 hours, you'll be oksy, but how do you know if your cable's defective like mine was? Find a sighted person to look at the little light? Ain't gonna happen around here. Jane Sheehan jcsheehan1@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vi-kindle-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Curry Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:57 PM To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vi-kindle] Charging the Kindle Hi all, So I got my Kindle a few days ago, and haven't apparently used it enough to have this problem. but apparently i ran its battery down completely and never got a battery low signal. It's a little disconcerting to be reading a book and then to have it stop in the middle with no warning. Is there a setting I need to turn on to make it tell me when the battery is low, or some way to get battery status so I don't get caught out like this again? And how the heck do you know when it's done charging? Shannon