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Ordered a Libra 2 yesterday via Amazon and it was dropped off at my door today.
(American here.)
Immediately popped off the back cover, gently removed the micro-SD card, and imaged it on my Linux laptop. Applied image to new Samsung 256GB card ($40 from Microcenter) and expanded the FAT partition out to the rest of the space on the card. Popped it back in the Libra 2 and booted it up, registered it, and immediately loaded the ~5,000 books/manga to it.
Installed KOReader and now it's all good.
I'm lazy and just never want to have to worry about storage on it ever again.
I also have a Clara HD that I upgraded to 64GB and it's excellent as well but I wanted a bit bigger screen to better read manga on.
Coming from an older Kindle Paperwhite model, the two Kobos are a nice upgrade.
Now for those that were discussing the "waterpoofing" on the micro-SD card, I found my model had a very thin film of something covering the micro-SD card itself but did not find any globs of that stuff anywhere on the mainboard itself.
All I did was break out my PC tool kit and pushed the card out from the back of the card holder via the tiny hole that is there with a fine set of tweezers while wiggling the card a bit side-to-side and pulling with my fingers. It eventually pops out. Then I cleaned off the card, captured the image, applied it to the 256GB card.
It booted up just fine from the new card, no need to go to great lengths to clean any waterproofing gunk off the micro-SD card holder. It's like the coated the factory card with the waterproofing film making sure to keep it off the contacts and then just shoved it into the slot to dry. Also used a small plastic pick to scrape under the exposed part of the card sticking out of the slot to separate the waterproof film from the mainboard.
All told it took about 10 minutes to pop the cover off and remove the factory micro-SD card.
So for about $225 total I now have a nice 7" e-reader with 256GB of storage. Not bad.
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