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As for an 8GB microSD card instead of a 32GB one, it's pretty hard to find anything smaller than 32GBs now — maybe on Amazon or eBay, but locally 32GB seems to be the smallest you can find in stores. (Fred Meyer always has these on sale — one brand or another, for about $4 to $6.) |
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Fred Meyer? Never heard the name before - doesn't operate on this side of the Atlantic, AFAIK. I'm the thick end of 5,000 miles east of you. |
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In some ways I would rather have an 8GB (or 16GB) microSD for the Mini also — the waste wouldn't seem quite as "wasteful." But 32GB is what I had on hand, so that's what I used. (Honestly the original 2 GB was good enough, but I did want a backup image.) Last edited by rcentros; 05-27-2024 at 09:17 PM. |
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Again, thanks for the information. |
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the rook, bossing Never.
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I do like to buy from a local retailer, but of course Tesco is even less a local retailer in Ireland than UK. No Sainsburys so they closed Argos here once they started moving Argos inside their UK stores. Most of the local SD card sellers are foreign chain stores selling with a crazy markup. I get one of 3 brands from Amazon if having to order something else. I did order some very cheap 2G & 4G cards for a project a few years ago. A double waste on money as many are faulty and the project never happened. Some old devices use 4G max. There are still things being sold that take 32G max. |
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Of course, it had to happen, didn't it? After sleeping on it, I changed my mind and decided to give upgrading the storage a go. A bit more than 2GB would be useful, after all. At worst, I'd be a few pounds out of pocket but still able to replace the original SD card.
The cheapest decent quality (SanDisk) μSD card was a trivial £6 for 32GB from Argos (we do have a Sainsbury's here, and it has an Argos inside). 32GB is a massive overkill, but hardly a problem. A quick trip into town and the hardware side is sorted. Making an image of the old card and copying it onto the new one was, as advertised, a simple job with the suggested software. Next was the bit that I thought might be a problem: resizing the partition on the new card. I remembered having had trouble with the suggested tool (MiniTool Partition Wizard) last year. I don't recall exactly what I wanted to do then, beyond the fact that it was something to do with upgrading my home-built desktop PC from Windows 10 to 11. Whatever I was doing wasn't available in the free version, and I'd have had to pay a vast amount of money for the Pro version to do it. It was cheaper to buy a new hard drive. Anyway, I'm pleased to say that I had no such difficulty today: resizing a partition is available in the free version. And it was pretty simple. I now have a working 32GB Kobo Mini. ![]() |
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Oh, so that's something to do with not registering, is it? Well, I had the Mini running unregistered yesterday, because that was the only way I could get ite to a usable state. But you're right: I'm perfectly happy to register and, now that I've got version 4 firmware installed, I've performed another factory reset and registered it to my Kobo account.
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the rook, bossing Never.
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Makes the My Books be the Home page and removes discover. Logging in again is simple via Settings, though that sets SideloadedMode=false rather than removing it and moves it in the list of features. You can also enable menu item for text export of annotations etc, from holding finger on a book in the list. |
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I'd like a mini, because the Kobo SW is better than Sony. I have the PRS-350 and I have to turn it on now with a map pin. On/Off plastic disintegrated.
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