[dajames]

I've just bought a Touch as a reader for free eBooks. I have no interest in commercial or DRM protected books, I just want to be able to have something to read with me, without carrying heavy dead trees ... and there are plenty of "Classics" that are out of copyright.

The Touch appears as a USB drive, and I can copy eBooks onto it without any difficulty. I've also managed to update the firmware by copying a new version into the .kobo directory (as described elsewhere in these forums) and that worked well. What I can't find out how to do is to set up wifi to connect to my home network (I don't want to connect to Kobo's store).

The Touch has a built-in browser, and it would be nice to be able to use that (I'm not expecting great things, but it'd be useful on occasion) ... if I can just set up wifi.

The accepted wisdom seems to be that one has to connect to the Kobo desktop application at least once to set up the wifi connectivity ... I can see that you might need to do that to set up a Kobo account and to synchronize with the device, but I don't want to do that.

Surely there's an easier (i.e. more direct) way to set up the wifi client itself?

Cheers,
Daniel.