So.. What should I actually be doing?

[Rafal]

You don't mention what are your current skills:

- do you have some experience with statistics
- do you have some experience with computer programming
- do you have some experience with linguistics
- do you know Latin or German
- do you have some knowledge of medieval herbals, alchemy or astronomy books
- do you have some experience with cipher breaking

and so on.

The problem with Voynich Manuscript is that all this stuff is relevant and probably necessary to eventually crack VM. Of course a single man cannot be an expert in all these fields. So if ever VM is cracked, it will be a result of the work of many people. Even if just one man does it, he will be still using results of many others.

So answer yourself what is your forte or which area is especially interesting for you. And try to have some decent knowledge of everything but be really good in something. Then make an attack on VM from your angle.

And read what others established so far  This part is somehow "boring" for many people who just  jump to their solution without learning "state of the art".