My second hand kobo from 2014 has always had miserable battery life but lately would randomly freeze, sometimes for *days*. Finally switched out the battery last night and found the culprit of the freezes, one of the chips was slightly dislodged and making intermittent contact. Currently my only functional soldering iron has a tip as thick as a thumb, but I managed to reattach the chip and can now hopefully enjoy weeks of books between charges.

Also I don't recommend trying to remove glued down lithium batteries at 2am because a possum started hissing outside my window and I thought the old battery was going nuclear

#righttorepair