[delphin]

In regard to my previous comments calling Kobo's decision to go with a custom Linux implementation instead of Android a huge screwup; I apologize for my choice of words, I should have simply said that I was personally disappointed by this choice and left it at that.

I agree 100% that, if the new Kobo Touch does what folks need it to do right out of the box, then this shouldn't be much of an issue for them.

The thing is that I already have a Sony PRS-650 that can already match the Kobo pretty much feature for feature (and then do a few things that the Kobo Touch can't like play MP3s), so I was hoping to get a reader with access to the Android Market, because there are some pretty nice apps available.

For example, though I am fairly happy with my Sony when reading PDFs, my Sony's PDF markup capabilities really suck, but RepliGo running in Android on the Nook Color can actually save annotations right back to the PDF so you can then email it to someone for review.

It's true that a lot of the Android apps look bad on the Nook Touch now, because they haven't been adapted for display on an eInk device yet, but Android development is all about tweaking apps to be as portable as possible, so that they can give their users the best possible results across the full spectrum of Android devices, so I would expect this to improve over time.

For what it's worth, although I do think that the Nook Touch has a lot of potential over time (due to it's Android OS), I think that the Kobo has a much nicer set of features right out of the box.