Hi Oren!
You'd certainly laugh at how I cloned my Kobo's image!!! Ok, ready, here we go:
Either USB ports on my computer are borked or the microSD reader that I have was playing funny! So, what I did was I grabbed my Android phone, shoved the microSD card into it, connected to it through SSH and used
ssh-dd pipelining to my
Windows computer (Yes, at this point I'm not even running my trusty Arch for some reasons).

Ridiculously innovative