I successfully used mintstick to both format and burn the image in Linux. comes with Mint18 already in the meny, as two applications.
dd = method did not work for me.
as there were 10 fields in the sqlite file to unlock, see the other thread on that.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...88#post3772588
oh, and this also all fixed up my no connection via USB problem. without that and a disconnect the reader was not updating the book I had manyally put into it (after creating a Book folder in the right place).
I will use Clonezilla boot cd to do a complete 'disk' backup of this sdcard.
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