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Originally Posted by emusan
There was one user that got one for $150 (might have been buy it now as well), and mentioned that the seller had another one going for the same price(both fully working).
Also, given that all the important electronics lie behind the e-ink I would find it hard to believe that whatever smashed the e-ink didn't break anything else back there. If I'm right and it is the ribbon cable replacing the motherboard wont do anything anyway, it may be that the ribbon cable in the damaged EE is fine, but that's a bit of a long shot, and you can probably get an equivalent cable many places for far less money(even free).
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To a large extent it would depend on where the break in the e-ink screen occurred - if it was the lower half of the screen there shouldn't be too much electronics there, it's mostly battery in the EE.
Strangely enough, even though we work in hardware for a living I've never taken my EE apart just for a look see and I'm not breaking the rule I enforced when I started the business - too many times we get equipment in for repair that someone just took apart to see how it worked. Yes, if anything does go wrong with mine I'll take it apart, and document it with pictures and notes but as long as it works it stays together.