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@BoxingOrange

Here's what I did:
install Desktop, register an account using email and password, connect KT, let Desktop register your KT, then when it begins to synchronize your ereader, click the exit button. You'll then see a Completed Installation message, shut down Desktop and uninstall it, eject your KT and it will fire up to the Home page with No Books loaded message. Desktop will have had no time to download anything on to the KT, 2.0.2 will be installed and you can now sideload all the epubs you want.

I never have the WiFi on and never buy books from Kobo - I use Amazon, de-DRM with Calibre plugins and convert to epubs. I just use the Kobo as a reading machine, no ads, no hassle, just the occasional email from Kobo trying to sell books but that's it. Shelves works fine. Never bothered with the sqlite route as this has worked with installs of 2.0.2 on two different readers.

PS... forgot to mention to install the 2.0.2 which you've DL from the link here somewhere first of all and you've arrived at the black screen saying connect to Kobo website. Also, install 2.0.2 on to a KT that has been factory reset first - do not install over previous upgrades, it screws up the fonts. Never use Desktop to upgrade the OS, best to wait for a link to appear here.