...on my Kindle II To download by wireless The Touchstone. The download seemed to be successful (ie.The Touchstone was now listed on my Home list). When I opened the book it opened to the Title page. After that I lost control of all normal Kindle functions (Next Page, Prev Page, Home, Back).
I can confirm that I downloaded The Touchstone directly from the PG site to my Kindle DX, using a hardwired (USB) connection -- thus avoiding the possibility of a damaged whispernet wireless download (which is also known to happen). On the Kindle DX The Touchstone also makes bad things happen. So this appears to be an incompatibility between something in The Touchstone and Kindle software in general. Opening The Touchstone in Mobipocket Reader shows no problems using that MOBI file reader. Guessing based on superficial appearances only, the TOC in the HTML version of The Touchstone appears to be using an unusual format which has three columns of HTML links. I'm guessing the Kindles et al are not correctly handling whatever gets generated from the HTML in the MOBI file's attempt to handle this unusual formatting choice for the TOC. See for example "A Danish Parsonage" TOC for a "Lowest Common Denominator" style of formatting of a TOC that I would think any MOBI or EPUB reader should be able to handle no problem. Kindle II and Kindle DX don't even handle "normal" tabular representation of TOCs correctly -- they don't normally "break" on the tabular representation, they just don't allow one to actually access the active links within a tabular TOC either. ...of course, if PG were to come up with a standard way to actually implement the standard TOC format supported in the Spine of MOBI and EPUB file formats automagically from a PG-standardized HTML format, then presumably it would all work as the devices expect....