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Old 03-06-2012, 12:51 PM   #10
Reader Paradice
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Device: Kobo Vox and Touch
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LOL, you quoted my post before I hit the 'edit' key. Oh well, I did say it and it was up there for a few minutes anyway. I should take a few deep breaths before I 'submit post' sometimes.

I've had a couple of Kobo employees who were great to work with and very helpful (and some who were a little less so), but I think overall, the company is having issues that go beyond the reach of a few individual and dedicated employees who have to spend their day 'putting out fires' of discontent among the customers.

I have my individual Vox set up the way I like it and I'm enjoying it for my own use, although after this latest episode I am concerned about the state of my books. I have been downloading purchased books onto my laptop anyway, so if Kobo continues to be goofy with the purchases, I do have copies, and they could be sideloaded onto the Vox and read with another app if need be. I tell ya, life with the Vox was a lot calmer when I was snowbirding in a location where the Vox didn't have wifi access for a month.

That being said, I've had people ask me about this reader and I do state as above, that for my own use, I like it because I did a lot of work with it to get things the way I want. However, I couldn't recommend it because of its big learning curve and the growing pains the product and now the company itself seem to be experiencing. If you're a bit of a tech geek like I am and willing to get on the internet and ask questions and learn, that's one thing, but if you're not, then this is not the product for you. Oh, and the approach to the charger issue, which people have been complaining about at the get satisfaction site for months now, is still not being addressed and I find that in itself just bizarre. Since firmware and software upgrades seem to be so difficult to get right, my take would be to package and sell the charger as a separate unit and get that out there pronto. (I know many disagree with me, no one wants to pay extra $ for a proprietary piece of hardware, and I understand that.)

I wanted a reader that could read colored books because I'm an avid birdwatcher with many lovely bird manuals with wonderful color pictures and these books are simply too cumbersome to carry around. I thought wouldn't it be great to have a e-reader instead...Hence, I pounced on the chance for the Vox as soon as I heard about it. Well, I don't have the birding books, but I do have a lot of books on there from several different sources and I like that, and I like being able to do a bit of quick browsing as well.

Without having found this message board beforehand, however, and doing a lot of reading, I would have been completely lost with the Vox. And that, too, is why I cannot recommend it and I cannot gift it to anyone.
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I in fact like the hardware that is the Vox. I liked my Vox very much pre-March 2nd. I liked the 5 book mosaic widget VERY MUCH. I read three or four books simultaneously, and found that wonderful. I did not 'need' a reduction of what books I am reading...so as to make room for book-pushing. That truly sent me into 'steam mode upon the mountain top'. But...I did type, I felt better, I read my rant, and decided that I didn't have to put anybody captive to it, LOLOL!

R.P.

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