[jeather]

I have a lovely e-ink reader, but wanted a tablet to read when it is dark out, and for easier use with recipes. So I thought I would try a vox, and they had them in stock at Future Shop. (I bought blue.)

Now, I've been carefully managing my library with Calibre. No good. Calibre doesn't recognise the Vox, and I can't get content sharing to work (it has worked fine with my dearly departed Stanza). I can drag and drop folders onto the Vox, and then use the reading app to import, but this is a huge pain. I assume Calibre will get integration with the Vox shortly, if not wirelessly to the Kobo reading app. I cannot get Alkido to find my content server either, but I've never liked Alkido so I don't feel it's a huge loss. Anyways, Kobo will import books into your reader, though it appears that the social stuff doesn't work properly with imported books. (Yet? Ever? Not that I necessarily want it, but I would like to see how it works before I decide whether or not to keep the reader.)

The biggest problem is the margins, which are huge in portrait mode, and inexcusably unusable in landscape mode if you show 2 pages to a side. I don't care to have screen space taken up with large amounts of nothingness, especially not on a small 7" screen. I have asked about the margins via twitter as well: this is likely to be a make-or-break issue.