Pages for iPad stops typing, can't delete

After a while of note taking, for example, using Pages on the iPad 2, the keyboard (or more likely the pages app) suddenly becomes unresponsive, no letters show up after typing, and if they do there is a very lagged response time in terms of typing a letter and it showing up in the document, sometimes no letters appear at all. Also, when trying to delete letters, the cursor either slides over the letters, without deleting them, or it scrambles the letters(or pixels).
Has anyone had this happen? It does correct itself after you restart the iPad itself, but i'm not going to continue to do that everytime, and sure enough over the course of an hour the problem re-emerges.
I've had to resort to the notes app, which does not have the same issues. There are no issue with regards to the ipad screen itself or anything. Just Pages.
This is a real pain.
Thanks in advance

I am experiencing the same problem and it didn't happen until I uploaded the latest update. I am tempted to uninstall the Pages App it and reinstall it. First I need to save and/or print all of my documents.
You're right it's a real pain because so far only a few of us are experiencing the same problem.
No, restarting the iPad 2 does not fix the problem 100%.
My Notes App works perfectly too, so it's something with the Pages App.

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