I thought the geeks out there might like to see how markups and notebooks are handled on the Linux side of the Kobo.
First, here is the directory listing for my Elipsa:
You’ll notice some new directories in there. First of all, screensavers does not work anymore. At least not on my Elipsa. I’m having odd glitches whenever I connect my Elipsa into the computer. Importing erases all of my downloaded Kobo purchases. Perhaps the screen saver isn’t working for the same glitchy reason. At any rate here’s the content listings for “iink”. The content template for each subdirectory is the same (The names of the subdirectories are on the left):
The other new directory is called “markups”. It is in this directory that all annotations reside. Annotations seem to survive a factory reset, or more likely, are synced to and restored from Kobo’s servers upon setup and sync. Notebooks are just goners. What’s curious is that the files are pairs of JPGs and SVG vector graphics. This is what allows the annotations to adapt to some typographic changes. Ones that can’t adapt are left in the ebook with a markup icon to allow you to revert or the original markup typographic settings, or to delete the markup:
The thing I was looking for was where are those pesky notebooks kept? I found them. The are located in the root directory as *.nebo files. I have extracted mine and will see if I can reimport them just by copying them to the root when I get finish with Kobo and my defective Elipsa.
Any questions?
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