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Old 10-07-2013, 01:01 AM   #814
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Here's something that I don't know whether to call a bug report or a feature request...

I picked up a neat little gizmo from SanDisk that's a "Wireless Flash Drive." Short form: it's a chunky thumb drive with a built-in WiFi router. It's designed to be a way for multiple mobile devices to connect to a common data pool - for instance, store some music on it and different people can connect to the drive's network and access it. The important consideration is that it's a LAN; its purpose is to let devices interact without needing to access the internet.

Anyway, my idea was to store a copy of my DRM-free ebooks on the drive, so I could delete 'em after reading but be able to connect to the drive "in the wild" if I wanted to access 'em. Sounds reasonable, right?

My Kobo Glo will see the drive's network and let me attempt to connect to it, but always comes back with a vague error message. My Kindle Touch does the same thing, but gives a clearer message: it won't let me connect to the drive's WiFi because it can't get from there to the internet. It seems logical that this is likewise the case on the Glo.

I'd like to see that restriction removed. Sometimes you really do just want to connect to a LAN, and the Kobo firmware should permit that.
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