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Old 09-03-2015, 05:55 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by m1a2c3 View Post
it wasn't until I tried turning it on that the screen went like this
For the image to change on eInk it needs electricity; the image displayed by eInk is static - it only consumes power when you update it to a new image. You can break eInk screen and it won't change the display much - until you try to draw a new image, then it all goes haywire.

It's impossible to repair, even if you could find a replacement screen [which is usually as expensive as a new reader], out of all Kobo devices the Aura is probably the most difficult to open and actually perform such replacements.

Basically a reader with broken eInk is worthless.

Best you could hope for is sell it for a small sum to someone who might be able to use a broken reader for something. Like someone who bricked theirs: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=264435
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