[Deerslayer]

Well, I got almost a year's worth of joy out of it, so I guess I may have to accept things, but ...

I settled down to finish reading one of my books the other day. A chunk of the screen (about 2" square, lower left corner, top of it was ragged, right side was straight) was blank! No matter what I have tried, this never goes away. The device is now useless. It is almost like something got laid on top of that area, with a very precise edge (not even 1 pixel variation along that straight edge!) and masked it off.

Having accepted that the device is probably pooched, I would really like to know what kind of things can happen to e-ink. This Kobo is one of the earliest, I bought it the first week or so that it hit Chapters. I have always protected it, kept in a soft case, etc. If the defective area was completely regular, e.g., a rectangle, I would suspect some sort of screen driver/memory problem, but the pattern I have mystifies me. So, before I "close the chapter" on my e-book experience, I wonder if someone in KOBO support might have some thoughts on this? Or, has anyone else seen something similar? Or, is there some rare susceptibility to (UV?) that e-ink experiences?


Thankfully, I have never bought any e-books! I found lots of good stuff, much of it via feedbooks.com, to keep me entertained. I will certainly miss the ability to have all kinds of reference manual PDF's readily available (camera, car, various electronic things, other personal documents etc.) - that was a major selling point for me of KOBO vs. Kindle and some others. At least I have my Eee PC, which can do this, and more, but does have a hard disk, so one has to be more careful about its use.

I appreciate any thoughts on this matter.