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Have you tried downloading it as an ePUB and then using ADE rather than sync? Images display just fine when you use ADE. I only use ADE (or Calibre) and I see images and centered text boxes without any problems at all.

Many people want to sync with various devices and the WiFi version of the reader makes that happen more easily. So although I don't know what they are doing about the quality of the display through Kobo sync, I would be very surprised if they were not working on it.

When you bought your reader from Borders *on sale* the terms of the sale were that it could be exchanged, but not returned for cash. I always ask about that sort of thing when I buy sale items, but that's me. It's not unusual for stores to do that with sale items, is it?

You said you had weighed all the options--and exactly what, other than price, did you take into consideration? Surely if you had done much pre-sale investigating you would have realized that images are not displayed when books are loaded through the desktop software sync rather than by ADE. I was surprised to discover that, btw, but I bought my Kobo the first day it was available for sale here, not 5 months later when its strengths and limitations had been extensively reviewed.