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Old 02-28-2024, 09:46 PM   #14
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It's another NickelMenu item that turns on the telnet server. Once it's on, I just use Putty on my computer to connect...
The connection has really high security NOT, user is root and password is blank.
Pretty impressive (not about a password though)

So it gives you ability to access reader's fs?
I think for Kindle you need to do a jailbreak for that.

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No, once a Kobo is in USBMS mode, the USB connection has sole access to the storage. Just don't try running calibre and other apps that will access your Kobo on your computer at the same time. I.e. while calibre is connected to the ereader, don't try using another utility to work on the database at the same time. The results can be interesting for certain unpleasant values of interesting.
Got it, thanks! Yes, sqlite is ok for async reading, writing without acquiring a lock might be fatal.
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