Something’s wrong with the Kobo

This morning after loading a newly purchased book onto the Kobo, I found that something had gone seriously wrong with the display.

I don’t know what happened.

I’ve tried the usual: leaving it, switching on and off, hard reset, but that’s how the screen looks. I conclude that there’s a hardware issue here. I haven’t dropped the Kobo so am at a loss as to how this happened.

With half the screen looking as it does, books are currently unreadable on the Kobo. Normally I would be pretty devastated and annoyed at the moment. Of course, I am still kind of peeved but it’s tempered somewhat because I can use the iPad for ebook reading.  I have transfered the books I am currently reading on the Kobo to the iPad (hooray for epub!), and I’ll take it in to Borders tomorrow to see what they suggest. (And of course I can hear you all reminding me that I can still read paper books.)

It would be nice if they have some magic fix. Whatever it is, I hope it can be easily fixed. I would love to be able to take the Kobo to Melbourne with me next weekend. I wonder if it’ll just be the iPad, though…

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the book I bought was perfectly innocuous: Unknown by Mari Jungstedt. I had a $5 off voucher from Kobo so it cost me $6.

Update on the Kobo Sunday 11 July: I took it back to Borders on Friday 9 July. They are going to call Melbourne about the warranty, and I’ll be hearing from them on Monday or Tuesday.