I so, so, so, so, so did not mean for this to turn into self promotion.
Gah. I was expecting other authors to check their work and readers to check their favorite authors.
As far as I can tell, Kobo is doing some serious retooling on this. There are duplicates and missing covers on some of the books and navigation is sketchy at best.
I do think they could do a better job and I'm willing to give Kobo the benefit of the doubt. They've come out with new readers and made contracts with WH Smith and FNAC. Right now, I believe they're identifying the bugs and getting overwhelm . . . I mean figuring out solutions for them.
Seeing how they've been working over the last year, I'm going to guesstimate that they'll have the major bugs worked out by February or March and perhaps begin shipping ebooks to their partners around that time too.
The thing that makes me the happiest is that it appears as though DRM Free is something they are working towards.