For that I had to resort to using Windows 11. MacOS’s Disk Utility will display FAT32 partitions, but it won’t alter or resize them. This is where things got a little frustrating.

You can use this command in the MacOS Terminal application to image the drive:ĭd if=/path/to/kobo_sdcard.img of=/dev/ bs=8194Īt this point, everything was restored to the new SDCard, but the partition table reflected 7 GB of space for storage – the rest of the capacity was free space.

Step one was to remove the original SDCard and image it. The other two I presume were for the operating system or whatever else this device might need protected access to. One of those partitions was where all of my books lived. The original card was formatted FAT32 with a master boot record and had three partitions. Unfortunately things aren’t as simple as swapping the card and rebooting. This requires a plastic opening tool to pry the back panel off without scratching any of the plastic.Īs you can see in the picture, there’s a microSD card reader on the board. Last night we retired an older Roku player and I repurposed the 32 GB microSD card it had been using for channel storage to upgrade my Clara. That’s more than enough for storing black and white ePubs, but it’s trivially easy to upgrade. It turns out that the Clara uses an 8 GB microSD card for internal storage. The Clara is not exactly open source, but it is possible to hack it out to not require an account to use and it works pretty well with Calibre to manage books. I’ve tried Kindles in the past, but none of them ever clicked with me. As I mentioned back in October, I’ve been using a Kobo Clara HD for reading fiction.

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