Yarr,
I had two Kobo Klara HDs which died on me on the space of a year. During that time I also may have used libgen. Is it possible that was the cause of the failure?
Cheers,
An epub is just an archive containing text files, css files, and images, there nothing in there that can damage hardware. It’s possible you just ran into a bad batch of kobo’s
There are viruses in pdfs, but epub doesn’t have an executive layer. So that’s highly unlikely. And even if you had read any infected pdfs, I’m not aware of any virus that’s able to wreck hardware.
Could probably mess with the firmware, but nothing a factory reset shouldn’t fix.
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No.
An epub is just an archive containing text files, css files, and images, there nothing in there that can damage hardware. It’s possible you just ran into a bad batch of kobo’s
It’s really unlikely that an EPUB would be able to damage your devices.
This is more likely to be a hardware issue.
There are viruses in pdfs, but epub doesn’t have an executive layer. So that’s highly unlikely. And even if you had read any infected pdfs, I’m not aware of any virus that’s able to wreck hardware.
Could probably mess with the firmware, but nothing a factory reset shouldn’t fix.