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Went to look at them, but couldn't make myself buy one (the black is nice, but the other two colors are back colors only, although at least the button is silver, instead of blue). The store REALLY pushes the $50 2-year replacement plan (although they say they will do an in-store exchange for the first year and a no-questions asked, no restocking fee refund for 30 days) that comes with some free coffee coupons, disposable wipes for the screen and a cover (likely vinyl outside, has nice pockets inside, but apparently uses two-sided tape to stick to the back of the reader).
As I understand it, the wireless is useless other than accessing their store (although you can reflash it to use the Kobo store instead of Borders or even replace the boot system, if desired, as well as easily backup before you start, by removing the internal micro-SD card). But, you are stuck with the fragile db to hold books, which seems to crash fairly often (I know my original Kobo did, until I wiped it and ended up with no "free" books and used only Calibre to manage it), although most people apparently just put books on SD cards, instead.
The question is, is it much better than the original Kobo? Or is there a market for original Kobo units? Other than adding library books via ADE (which apparently can't be done wirelessly and you can't access calibre's web server or drop-box, either), is there a big draw for these? Although, at least the last time I tried ADE with my orig Kobo, at least it didn't try to crash ADE and end up wiping the unit of any other books (like the Sony did).
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