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SensualPoet · 05-03-2010, 01:22 PM

Also, once you plug the device in to charge it via USB, the display is locked -- and so is access to the user guide ... since it's on the device. The quick start guide is fine as it goes -- and I'm not advocating including a 100 page printed manual. But considerably more EXPLICIT hand-holding would be welcome. The device itself is pretty easy to use and learn, stand alone, as it comes with 100 books to play with. Where the instructions fall down, badly, is the connectivity: installing the desktop software, setting up a Kobo account, loading up Adobe Digital Editions. None of this is terribly difficult ... once you know how. It's a serious usability gap.

05-03-2010, 01:22 PM	#5
SensualPoet Wizard Posts: 2,302 Karma: 2607151 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Paperwhite, Asus ZenPad 3, Kobo Glo	Also, once you plug the device in to charge it via USB, the display is locked -- and so is access to the user guide ... since it's on the device. The quick start guide is fine as it goes -- and I'm not advocating including a 100 page printed manual. But considerably more EXPLICIT hand-holding would be welcome. The device itself is pretty easy to use and learn, stand alone, as it comes with 100 books to play with. Where the instructions fall down, badly, is the connectivity: installing the desktop software, setting up a Kobo account, loading up Adobe Digital Editions. None of this is terribly difficult ... once you know how. It's a serious usability gap.