My mother's cybook is dead.
It froze frequently ever since she's had it, but a reset usually solved the problem.
The last time it froze, it was in the middle of a specific book. While she was reading this book it froze rather more frequently than usual, so the book may have something to do with it, or it may be just a coincidence. (just a normal .mobi book, converted from epub using calibre, by the way)
Anyway, this last time reset didn't work, powering it on and off didn't work, charging it didn't work, connecting it to the pc didn't work. The screen was blank with a vertical black line and so it stayed. One day later she connected it to the pc again, the line disappeared but nothing else happened. Removing the battery and putting it back didn't work. Persistently pushing the reset, made the little power light flicker a bit, then nothing again. Put to charge again, the light was on for hours, so it must have been charging, though it was supposed to be fully charged. Charge complete (for the second time after the freeze), and on/off, reset, connecting to pc still don't work.
Which brings me to the question: What to do with a dead Cybook Gen 3?
If it can be resuscitated, by all means, please, tell me how! (I've kind of given up hope as you can probably imagine)
And if not, can I do anything else useful with it? Load a different firmware? (How, if it won't even turn on?) Make it a nice picture frame? Take it apart and study the mysteries of e-ink?
for any serious or silly suggestions!