@mikegetz
Just a suggestion, you might want to add some plexi-glass or rigid metal to the front of the case because my screen cracked. I disassembled it and the fake looking screen has a nice piece of glass under it. The manufacturer decided that the back needs more support then the screen and they put a metal casing around the motherboard, leaving the front exposed.
@darksite
Thank you for finding that, I cannot use it at the moment, but if I'm able to get my reader replaced I'll try and modify the linux it is based on. I had problems with the other distributions, the filesystem wouldn't mount in a loopback method. Then I checked them with the file command for bash and it told me it was a compressed file, tar if I recall correctly, but it wouldn't deflate.
I know my reader still works fine because I re-assembled it without the screen, plugged it in and the led lit up. Having power at least tells me the components are working correctly. Here are some pictures of the firmware of the bqAvant on my Pandigital Novel when my screen wasn't broken.
Oh, and if anyone wants to take it apart, there is no indication or seal that is broken for the store to know that you did so.