Apologies for not replying earlier, I hovered over this thread for half an hour after posting, then with no replies gave up and watched TV.
To answer:
@Gilmartin, I have a Linksys WiFi router connected (eventually) to Virgin Media, not straightforward admittedly, but everything else in the household has no problems with it.
@Xendula, I'm afraid that with less than perfect eyesight, I found no defects with either screen. The wider bezel of the Paperwhite did need more screen lighting to compensate for the larger black area, but since both were a step up from the K3, I was happy with what both offered. The Kobo's Menu "problem" (thanks for solving that @Lyn2012) was bugging me, but generally I liked the Kobo apart from the experiences of trying to connect it and download / sync content.
Unfortunately with the Kobo comfortable at a lower illumination level, it would be unfair to compare the screens - at it's higher brightness the paperwhite was whiter, but who's to say I could not have turned the Kobo up to a similar level and seen equal whiteness? At 35% lighting I did see two cones of shadow at the bottom of the Kobo screen, but they didn't spoil the reading experience in any way.
As a reader, the Kobo was a nice device, but it's connectivity was a total bust for me personally, and the Kobo desktop app was positively glacial as a sync'ing tool. By comparison using Adobe Digital Editions to sideload epub's on it was a delight (spent the majority of my time rereading an epub version of an old sci-fi book). I just wasn't prepared to risk the wear and tear of plugging in the USB cable each and every time I wanted to download a book.
On my limited and less than ideal run in with Kobo, I would say that I have seen nothing from Kobo that contradicts their less than perfect reputation on this forum. I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, but my WiFi and Customer Service experiences are eerily similar to disparaging threads in the Kobo section of this forum.
Last edited by civiliza; 10-13-2013 at 04:43 PM.
Reason: Remembered the cones
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