My ipod touch keeps crashing and I need to recover it every time

So this is the problem.. my ipod keep craching but a soft reset was all it needed. It used to happen every few weeks but now it's once or twice a week and once it's crashed, it goes in recovery mode. Now last time in an effort to isolate if it was a problem with an app, I installed only my fav app: Stanza (since I mainly use my ipod for reading), but obviously it crashed again.
Crashes are random, and never when using the ipod. I get it out of my pocket and it's just dead (and no, I don't have anything else in the pocket, and I've never have a hip surgery...)
So I've tried to read the forum (and search google, etc) but I didn't see no one else with my problem.
Can someone help?

Thanks for the answer.
What I did was switch case (my old one is all leather, with a front protector that was kept close with magnets, so I was starting to think they had an adverse affect), and also switch pockets. I always kept my touch in my pants pocket but maybe there was a small strain on the unit.
So for it's working fine so I'll leave it as is for now. Not installing Stanza would mean having a useless unit for me, so it's my very last option...
Thanks for your help and have a great Christmas holiday.

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