Since I'm always last to the party, I'm kind of surprised that no one has commented on the Font Tuning that's included in the Glo. Font WEIGHT and SHARPNESS controls!!!! Oh, my! Combined with the 1024x768 screen, this sounds like a really fine reading experience.
(Note: I screen clipped an image of the Kobo Glo's Font Tuning screen from the youtube video link on that owly posted earlier in this thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud-wR_dVwJY, but I've now discovered that I have no idea how to include it in this post. Sorry!)