Good to hear that you have the switch and touch problem fixed.
The wrong cover during sleep is something that has happened with different versions of the firmware. 3.18.0 doesn't have a problem, but you don't mention which it is.
Another reason for this, and could explain the ordering of books, is having the date and time incorrect. These functions use the timestamp of when the book was read. If you read some books then set the date to an earlier time, when you read the next book, the timestamp would be earlier and hence show in the wrong positions in the lists. Removing some books might seem solve this if you removed the books with the most recent timestamp.
As to access, Kobo do not enable telnet, ssh or an other incoming access method. There are several ways to enable them yourself.
And if you do end up with a dead device, other than the screen and the internal micro SD card, I don't know if there is anything useful in these devices. But, someone would probably be willing to take it off your hands. There are a few evil-scientist types here willing to do all sorts of experiments on Kobo devices (don't deny it, you know who you are! And stop that maniacal laughter).
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