Thanks for your response ottdmk.
I ended up purchasing the Kobo Touch tonight. The Wireless Key was no problem (other than being a pain to type in), and the device connected to the network without any problems.
The O'Reilly books, on the other hand, do not perform well at all. I copied two O'Reilly ePubs to the device, and it took 23 minutes to process the two files. Once on the device, they could be opened and page turns were reasonably quick, but trying to navigate with the slider was ridiculous.
I ended up following the advice in
this thread and converting the .MOBI file to .EPUB using Calibre, and the books in this format are actually quite good. Not an ideal solution, but works fairly well.
The Touch is a nice upgrade compared to the original Kobo. It's signficantly faster, and the screen is much easier to read.
