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@VKVW The $128 CAD was an already discounted price which was instituted first as a four day holiday special and then permanently shortly before the announcement of the new WiFi Kobos. I paid $149 CAD for mine May 4. Tim said that stores in Canada now have the original for $99 CAD.

If speed and display are the biggies for you, and the improvements in these areas and the other differences between models are not compelling, then I hope you continue to enjoy your older Kobo. It's a great eReader and I don't regret buying mine at all.

Other folks though want to sync across devices, have images available by Kobo sync, get updates automatically, and buy books without connecting to a computer.

To each his or her own.

PS: From following the forum, I get the distinct impression that some original Kobos were much slower to load and turn pages than others. I was lucky enough to have a speedy little devil to begin with, so speed has never been an issue for me. I have though wondered to what extent the kind of content, how it was loaded onto the reader, etc mattered in terms of speed.