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Yes, as I said above in my first post, I've tried another computer. Also, I'm not sure that I personally damaged the USB port, as opposed to it simply being a poor factory solder that broke down over time. Having searched around, it seems to be a fairly common problem with these kobos. I don't know, maybe I've been lucky, but this is the first time I remember ever having had a USB port fail on any device I've owned - well, any mobile device. (I've had one or two go bad on PC.) Point being that I'm not in the habit of aggressively trying to jam cords into the port the wrong way or anything else that might damage them.
Anyway, it's a bummer, doubly so because the warranty has expired, but I can live with the Dropbox solution until I buy another reader - although, again, the next one will have an SD slot, so that if something like this ever happens again I'll have a backup method of sideloading content.
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