My preschooler tripped and stepped on my 2-year-old kobo Touch earlier this week, breaking the screen. Luckily it's also my birthday week so I now have a new Aura.
Since I hadn't sync'd my device since October or November and I'm wondering if there's a way of retrieving my notes/annotations from the Touch's memory (particularly for non-kobo ebooks loaded through calibre) before I recycle it. Because of where the screen broke, I no longer see the "Connect" button when I connect it to my desktop using the USB port, nor can I sync using wifi. I took off the back cover and my model (N905) doesn't have the microSD card, unfortunately.
Kobo tech support says there's no way to connect to the device from the desktop if you can't press the Connect button on the screen, but I'm wondering if there's somehow a way to force a connection from the desktop when it's connected by USB (it's not showing up as a device on the computer) or if there's another way to retrieve data off the internal memory.
I've looked for threads/blogs discussing this but haven't found anything specific to a device that's not showing up on the desktop that doesn't have the microSD card. I'm running Windows 7 but I think my husband has Linux on one of his laptops if a different OS is needed.
Since I hadn't sync'd my device since October or November and I'm wondering if there's a way of retrieving my notes/annotations from the Touch's memory (particularly for non-kobo ebooks loaded through calibre) before I recycle it. Because of where the screen broke, I no longer see the "Connect" button when I connect it to my desktop using the USB port, nor can I sync using wifi. I took off the back cover and my model (N905) doesn't have the microSD card, unfortunately.
Kobo tech support says there's no way to connect to the device from the desktop if you can't press the Connect button on the screen, but I'm wondering if there's somehow a way to force a connection from the desktop when it's connected by USB (it's not showing up as a device on the computer) or if there's another way to retrieve data off the internal memory.
I've looked for threads/blogs discussing this but haven't found anything specific to a device that's not showing up on the desktop that doesn't have the microSD card. I'm running Windows 7 but I think my husband has Linux on one of his laptops if a different OS is needed.