[Neil]

Hi -- I did find the problem with mounting it late last night. It turned out that on my Mac the application "Android File Transfer" was somehow corrupted. Worse it was corrupted in a way that it apparently ran and yet was not functional. Unlike a PC, on a Mac you cannot mount an ereader like a disk but must run this utility which handles the mounting. I suspected a bad cable. So I went to my Samsung Tab with its usual cable and it too did not work! So, I downloaded a new File Transfer app and that DID mount the Nova 3 Color and, of course, the Samsung. First, I was happy, the Nova 3 Color mounted on the desktop. BUT BUT, BUT....

The goddamn manual (and I have not even mildly sworn in a message online in years and years and years and I hope the mods will take this as just another -- albeit stronger than usual -- word) has a complete chapter on how to use WiFi to transfer files which I would bet only a percentage of users will ever care about and the manual (see above for the adjective) does not even mention how to transfer files using a USB cable. So it took me a short albeit unnecessary time to figure out the folder to drop into. But I finally had a comic book on the device! I was sooooo excited and then I opened the file....

This was a comic book from the 60's, a recolored Disney Donald Duck, so the backgrounds are pretty straight forward and the colors are washes and not complex to reproduce. On my Pocketbook Color (6" screen) I have to tweak it on contrast and saturation but it comes up very clear, and the colors although muted are, well, pretty colorful. However, viewing it on the Nova 3 Color was just an epic failure and far beneath the Pocketbook screen in every measure of visual quality.

First problem was the serious ghosting in all colored areas whenever I turned the page. Now the manual (see above for the accurate description of same) had an almost unusable section on how to put the refresh menu choice into an always-onscreen button. The only way, after almost an hour, I got that button to work was to ignore the hilariously poorly-written text in the (see above) manual and just look at the pictures. So there I was with my refresh button. And....

First off, let me tell you about a car that I owned in 1968, Like many cars in those days it did not like cold weather. The only way to get it started was to repetitively feed it the gas and so pump the gas pedal. Vrooooom, vroom, Varoom!!! But the car would start. On my Nova 3 Color every page stalled with ghosting. Pressing the refresh button over and over was like using my finger instead of my foot on a 1968 gas pedal. But it was like the car stalled at every light, every stop sign, every hill.... Well, OK, every page turn here.

Now even once the ghosting was "fixed" the colors were TERRIBLE. LOUSY. BAD. As compared to the smaller, cheaper, Pocketbook Color. I am a good "tweaker." I tried my best setting the contrast, saturation and refresh rates on the Nova 3 Color's menus. I never once could get a setting that made the file on the Nova 3 Color appear even mildly acceptable. I have read many reviews on the Internet which have said that the new Nova Color either beats or ties the new Pocketbook Color (the 7.8" model) when reading comics. OK, I have not seen the 7.8" Pocketbook as yet. But if you compare it to my Pocketbook Color 6" there is absolutely no contest. None.

So, OK, this device is still going back for return. It is packed and labeled and taped shut. I offer the above simply as my own review and opinionated thoughts. In closing I have to say that I cannot recommend the Nova 3 Color unless the actual color capability is far less important to you than having an Android tablet AND if you are a very well-versed expert-level user of Android and the Boox OS and do not need a manual.