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Originally Posted by Haesslich

My advice - don't get the Vox. It's not targeted to you. If you don't care about buying books from the Kobo Store, you can sideload non-ADE DRM'd books. It will do the reading part fine, but that reading's done in an app that runs on the Android platform which acts as the underlying OS, just as the Kobo Desktop application runs atop Windows.

You can have the Kobo Vox go into the Library by default when turned on if you activate the setting 'Start into the Library' in the Android settings menu. You can browse the bookshelf in the Library just fine.

Now are we talking about the default reading app that is built in, or third-party apps? And what happens when there's a hiccup and I need to do a factory reset, are they still there, or do I need to download them again? Can they be sideloaded independent of a wireless connection?

I personally suggest you try it out in the bookstore before you buy it, as your post otherwise sounds like trolling for the sake of trolling if you come into a thread JUST to bash a device. Especially since this is your SECOND POST EVER.

Would that I can find a store that does. I doubt they're terribly keen on people uploading their own files to their store demo models, installing apps, and so forth, to put it through its paces.

At first glance, the Vox looked to be exactly what I was looking for, a replacement for my barebones Kobo Wifi (gifted away when I expected to buy a new one). All that additional power, I figured that surely it would support fully-functional eBooks, how could it not? Disappointed as hell that really nothing has changed, 2 generations of devices later.

Or you could, y'know, just pick up a paper book and forget all the gadgetry. That works too.

I work out of construction and resource camps that make the Middle of Nowhere look like a metropolis, for weeks on end. Hauling around dozens of physical books in a ruck with my work gear isn't practical, chief.

And as a heads up, I can't think of any popular and easily obtainable reader which handles custom embedded fonts well. The PocketBook readers MIGHT, and I know if you use custom firmware the Sony T1 does... but most reader software won't. Aldiko, a third party Android reader, should be able to do so... but that'll involve more steps than you're willing to take with any reader. Perfect Viewer handles CBR fine, and without margins... but again, you're not interested in the steps it'll take to set it up.

I am interested in the steps to set such things up. My concern is whether I have to set it up every time I turn on the device, and how to accomplish it without an ever-present wireless signal.