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This is outstanding ... three Kobos in one year ... a new model every six months ... each adding value to the previous ... and all in the under $150 price point.
Meanwhile, the Kobobooks.com bookstore continues to improve in selection, as well continuing to market to its end-users in innovative ways. It's the only e-reader from a company which is solely focussed on e-books and e-readers and yet as little as one year ago ... didn't exist (the Canadian launch was May 1, the US launch late June and the rest of the world followed a couple of weeks later).
I'm thrilled they've added the Pearl screen and, in reducing the height, it will fit more pockets (although it appears the same width). However, it is new software and buttonless except for a home button so it remains to be seen how intuitive it is to find books, browse titles, sync to the cloud, etc. It doesn't sound like an open web browser is included so you still can't side load your own titles over wifi from your calibre server.
It would be cool if they managed to link it to both the Kobo store and Overdrive.
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