danifunker & hieronymos,
Thank you! I followed your instructions last night and my Vox is now operating just as I had expected it would when I first purchased it

! This is a very exciting development.
I have two questions:
1) I'd like to install google currents, and danifunker - you said you copied files from the zip to /etc and /framework. On what filesystem are /etc and /framework? When I try to copy, I get an error that the filesystem is ro - yet I can't figure out from the mount command where they are.
2) Now that our Voxs are "googlized" - any advice on how to protect the time spent so that we have any easy way of returning to this state should an update be released from Kobo?
I'm very happy and I appreciate all the time you've invested in this.