My Mom got the KOBO price of $99 on sale recently so she at least won't feel rooked. She is enjoying using it!
Yeah, tubemonkey, given their financial condition, I don't want to buy anything from Borders unless its in person in the store. An acquaintance bought some e-books from them and was told they were 'back-ordered.'

Why would anyone need to back-order an e-book?

I think (hope) she has them now.