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Originally Posted by j.p.s
It has been a long time since I have done a reset and do not recall whether books are erased by a reset. I would have guessed they are not.
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The only reset I can see is the "factory reset" and pretty sure that will wipe out all books.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Someone with direct experience will have to chime in. In any case, you can preserve all your bookmarks and notes by making a tar or recursive zip (-r option) of the contents of the documents directory on the kindle.
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I was wondering about that, as I assume all the status info for each book is in its sdr folder.
So if I back up the Documents folder, then reset the Kindle, then copy the the whole Documents folder back, it will restore all the bookmarks, notes, page position, collections, while rebuilding its central database of titles so I can load new books? Worth a try, if I've reset anyway.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
As for an alternative, as I wrote before, jailbreak. Preople always think they would never have any use for jailbreak but sometimes it turns out there is not only a use but a need.
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What does jailbreak let me do to solve this?
I'm on 5.9.2, and there was no jailbreak for that when I got it, though I think there is now. I put in the block folder to stop automatic updates to give that a chance to evolve. So I was thinking I would do that if I have to rebuild everything anyway.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Back to the reset option. If you have no books from amazon, why do you need to register? in any case, reregistering should be quick and easy and there is no need to reorganize your books or manually redo your bookmarks and notes (if you copy all the contents of the documents directory).
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I think I had to do that to turn off ads. And to download dictionaries, though I can presumably back up and restore the ones I have. And I may want to actually get am Amazon book, at some time. But not too worried about that.