HT4059 how to retrieve accidentally deleted highlights and notes in an ibook

My partner has spent countless hours highlighting and marking up a book my mother asked them to edit - only to accidentally delete all of the highlights and notes - thinking they had selected just a small set of notes to delete - but OH NO 16 pages disappeared - any chance they can get them back?

Well, you might think that. But you would be wrong.
I'm not aware of any unix OS with an undelete function at the filesystem level.
Such things don't tend to work well in a multiuser/server environment where lots of things are writing to the disk in the background.
And trying to guess what the filesystem used to look like is a good way to court random file system corruption.

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