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Originally Posted by pagansoul
The Kobo Vox was never worth the full ticket price of $250 when they first came out about 2 years ago. The Kindle Fire #1 was only $200 and it was a lot faster but did not have an SD card for additional 32GB. The price kept on dropping to the now $60 for refurbished readers. The price is good as a first reader or a backup but it is slow and using the card is a bit iffy.
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The earlier link used to point to brand-new ones for $60, but the same link now points to refurbished ones selling for almost $90. I do love it as an ereader (I'm not a fan of e-ink and my 10" tablet gets heavy after a while), but even new I wouldn't pay more than $60 and I sure wouldn't expect it to pass for a general-use tablet. I ended up using Mantano reader rather than the Kobo app because the Kobo app needs a little more horsepower to run smoothly.
I think the Vox is really sensitive to memory card quality and speed. I normally keep a cheap PNY card in it and it's slow and somewhat unreliable, but if I swap in a SanDisk card it works without a hitch (both cards are class 4).