[almagary]

Got the WiFi update, after a couple weeks of occasionally clicking on Sync in the desktop Kobo app. The firmware is 1.9 (r25373) of Mar. 29. User guide still dated Oct. 2010.

First off, the update has some handy library management functions. When you are in the Books list, the menu item is called Delete This Book. When in the I'm Reading list, the function is Remove From List. When reading a book, the function is Close Book, which exits the book and removes it from the I'm Reading list. All those seem to work.

The other addition is Go To, which brings up a virtual numberpad with two options on top: Skip Pages and Skip Chapters. Both work but are flaky. With Skip Pages, you enter the number of pages to skip from p. 1. Well, OK, but I would rather be able to skip back and forth from the page I'm on, as for example when I want to check back maybe five pages to see who a character is. In any case, maybe the function should be called Go To Page X rather than Skip Pages.

With Skip Chapters, even though it says, eg, "Enter a chapter number from 1-23," in my current 23-chapter book, the function counts all pieces of the book as chapters, from the first entry in the TOC. Thus, from the Cover, skipping 2 chapters in this book takes me to the 2nd item in the TOC ("Other Books By This Author"), not to Ch. 2 or 3. If on the 1st page of Ch. 1, skipping 2 chapters doesn't take me to Ch. 2 or 3 but again to the 2nd item in the TOC. To get to Ch. 3 from the Cover, I had to skip 10 "chapters"--actually, that many TOC items.

Otherwise, the update downloaded and installed quickly without any crashes or loss of books. But I hope a fullfledged 2.0 is more thoughtful in its Go To operations.