Normally I'm all for hacking devices. Heck, I probably wouldn't care if the ad removal hack involved replacing nickle (e.g. as Duokan does on the Kindle). After all, it is our device and we should have the right to do creative and innovative stuff with it.

Yet something just rubs me wrong about removing the ads on the special offers edition. I think that it has something to do with Kobo shipping a version without advertising. By buying the special offers version the consumer enters an agreement with Kobo: a discount in exchange for viewing advertising. By removing the advertising the buyer is breaking their word. Since we were given a choice, that sort of agreement seems completely legitimate to me.