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by DanBC 4013 days ago
Kobo mini?

It has some unpleasant requirements to connect to the Internet to set it up. This can be avoided with a bit of SAL on the microSD card (which is hidden inside the device).

http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/

> Connect the Kobo via USB, and mount its onboard storage on your desktop machine.

> Ensure you have an SQLite3 database browser installed, or some way to execute SQL. For example, sudo apt-get install sqlitebrowser

> Open /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite.

> Execute this SQL: insert into USER values("foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "foo");

> Save, unmount, and disconnect.