Memory is full, won't permit me to delete photos to increase storage

Greetings, All!
Here's the gist: Made the mistake of purchasing the iPad 3 with storage capacity of only 16gb, and now my iPad is full and misbehaving terribly. I recently purchased an external hard drive, thinking I could transfer my pics to it and then delete them from the iPad to free up memory. Unfortunately, my iPad is so full that the laptop I'd planned to use to transfer the pics to the external drive is unable to even recognize the iPad. Not a terribly big deal, I thought, as I knew I could delete some photos from my iPad without missing them. Thought I could free some storage which would then allow me to make the transfer.
Unfortunately, my iPad is so squirrelly now that most days it won't even allow me to delete photos from it. Last night, for example, even when I attempted to delete just one pic at a time, the iPad would instantly freeze up and return me to the homepage! The same thing occurs when I attempt to view my email - I open my email and in a split second it returns me to the homepage. Also have approximately 30 pending updates, but none can be downloaded because of the lack of available memory.
Tonight the iPad is behaving a little better, as I am able to delete about half a dozen photos at a time. Unfortunately, with nearly 19,000 photos to review, 6 at a time is going to be a very, very slow go! (To clarify, I have zero intention of deleting all of them; I merely want to delete enough of them so that I can transfer the remaining photos to the external hard drive.)
I am a newby at this, and am utterly stumped! I'd be beyond grateful if anyone in the community could advise me on what I'm doing wrong. Resetting my iPad is just absolutely not an option for me; it would break my heart to lose the overwhelming majority of my 19,000 photos!
Many thanks for your time and your assistance!
Michelle
P.S. If I can further clarify the situation or answer any questions for you at all, I'd be VERY HAPPY to do so! Thanks again!

Greetings, People, this is Michelle again, the original (and only) poster.
Looks like I've had 45 views thus far, but not a single response. :( Can someone clue me in? Is it that my post is too long? Is it unclear? Is my problem just so complex that no one knows how to advise me?
I am desperate, and will be elated with any advice on what I need to do to get a knowledgeable individual or two to make some suggestions as to how to ameliorate my problem.
Thanks so very much for your time!
Michelle

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