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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Question to those who opened their Kobo (WiFi):
How did you do that? There are no screws or anything. Just pull it apart?
I intend to open it, but I'd like to know beforehand if there is anything I should be careful about.
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There are no screws, just a large number of flimsy plastic tabs around all four outer edges of the device; perhaps
http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/search/label/kobo would make the picture clearer? Unfortunately, the eInk screen is very fragile and there is a risk in opening the device insofar as even the smallest hairline crack in the glass can make the display partially or totally unusable.
Given Kobo's unwillingness to make any replacement parts available for this device, the only solution if a Kobo malfunctions is to ship it back to the manufacturer for replacement (which will lose you any stored data or
internal memory upgrades as what comes back isn't the same device (or the same serial number) as what you sent in.
As for copying the entire internal microSD card? If you are insane enough to open this flimsy and fragile device, I'd suggest using 'dd' to copy everything to a 16Gb microSDHC card and then 'parted' to resize that final 1Gb VFAT partition to use the entire remaining space on the new card (a 16Gb card, with about 1Gb used for the Kobo firmware and 'factory reset' recovery image, would still have 14.1Gb free on which to store your books.
The 'dd' and 'parted' utilities are included free with pretty much any pir8ed copy of linux (also free) or, for that matter, an official copy of linux (about the same price, can't beat it).