this is truly weird, but my likebook Mars appears to have died. I happened to have a Likebook Plus (actually it's an Icarus, but same thing as far as I can tell). I'd given it to a friend who returned it. In any case, I got the plus going again and it works fine, yet it's at least a year or two older than the Mars. My guess is that the two got similar amounts of use over the course of their lifetimes. I had to replace the Mars battery more than a year ago. In addition, it always had stability issues: frozen screens, spontaneous reboots, very slow recoveries from full reboots, etc. Is it possible that the Plus was better built than the Mars? Also, Android 4 seems to be a bit more stable than 6 or 8 for ereader purposes. I did get 5 years out of the Mars, but I maybe got a bad memory chip.
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