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V10 · 11-15-2011, 11:21 PM

Well now I'm that much more worried, browsing other threads here...

I don't have a wireless router, nor do any of my friends. Which means I need to make a special trip somewhere to find a hot spot that will work. A big enough nuisance to get the initial setup squared away, and a gold-plated pain in the @$$ if I need to do it on a regular basis. (As for why I own a Kobo Wifi model, the price was right and the wireless was an extra bell and whistle which could be completely ignored and worked around.)

I would be using this at home (where there is no wireless, as I said), or during commuting and traveling. I often work out in the boonies, several hours from any hot spot, not in a net cafe. Being tethered in any way to a wireless connection is a crippling flaw.

As for any of the social media aspects, I. DO. NOT. CARE. I cannot emphasize that enough. I do not want to update my status. I do not want to synch with anything. I do not want to post my high score of pages turned. I do not want to be badgered to connect to the server, or locked out of my library until I do. I just want to turn it on and read my books in an eye-pleasing manner, and I'm not yet convinced that I can even get that out of the Vox.

Reading apps at least sounds somewhat promising, but that raises it's own questions about long-term support and compatibility. Is it just a ponderous work-around or will it act as a full conversion or an OS overlay? Will it actually let me just pick up the eReader and start right in, or do I have spend several minutes starting and setting up the app each time? Can I browse my bookshelf, or am I just scrolling down a file list? I'm being asked to plunk down $200 and trust that a third-party aftermarket download will solve everything.

The more I read, the more I'm forced to pass on the Vox as a kludgey eReader more concerned about being an underpowered tablet for social butterflies than doing it's core job.

I just want an eReader that makes full use of eBook formats, a glorified RTF text file / basic HTML page, a document whose complexity has existed for, what?, at least 20 years. Why does this seem to cause such difficulty?

11-15-2011, 11:21 PM	#7
V10 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: none	Well now I'm that much more worried, browsing other threads here... I don't have a wireless router, nor do any of my friends. Which means I need to make a special trip somewhere to find a hot spot that will work. A big enough nuisance to get the initial setup squared away, and a gold-plated pain in the @$$ if I need to do it on a regular basis. (As for why I own a Kobo Wifi model, the price was right and the wireless was an extra bell and whistle which could be completely ignored and worked around.) I would be using this at home (where there is no wireless, as I said), or during commuting and traveling. I often work out in the boonies, several hours from any hot spot, not in a net cafe. Being tethered in any way to a wireless connection is a crippling flaw. As for any of the social media aspects, I. DO. NOT. CARE. I cannot emphasize that enough. I do not want to update my status. I do not want to synch with anything. I do not want to post my high score of pages turned. I do not want to be badgered to connect to the server, or locked out of my library until I do. I just want to turn it on and read my books in an eye-pleasing manner, and I'm not yet convinced that I can even get that out of the Vox. Reading apps at least sounds somewhat promising, but that raises it's own questions about long-term support and compatibility. Is it just a ponderous work-around or will it act as a full conversion or an OS overlay? Will it actually let me just pick up the eReader and start right in, or do I have spend several minutes starting and setting up the app each time? Can I browse my bookshelf, or am I just scrolling down a file list? I'm being asked to plunk down $200 and trust that a third-party aftermarket download will solve everything. The more I read, the more I'm forced to pass on the Vox as a kludgey eReader more concerned about being an underpowered tablet for social butterflies than doing it's core job. I just want an eReader that makes full use of eBook formats, a glorified RTF text file / basic HTML page, a document whose complexity has existed for, what?, at least 20 years. Why does this seem to cause such difficulty?