[ddave7]

I love my new Kobo Touch. It answered the two main requirements I was looking for in a touch screen based reader; it can do a page refresh every page turn (the reason I returned a Nook Touch), and it is much thinner and lighter than the Kindle Touch.

However....... the ads on the sleep screen have to go.

Now before I get jumped on by people who have issues with this let me state that:

1) If any of my local stores had a non-offers model I would have bought it. It seemd like the only Kobo Touch you can buy these days in my dirt is the with offers model.

2) If Kobo offered a way to pay to eliminate the ads, like Amazon does, I would gladly pay. It looks like that is not an option at this point.

3) Turn the device over, close the cover, etc. is also not an option. I'd like to be able have a book cover during sleep mode. Even a blank page would be fine....

So here I am stuck with a great reader that just cycles through the same set of lame ads. You don't even get new ones every now and then. I have them memorized now, so I feel Kobo got their money's worth.

I did find a way to get rid of that irritating recommendations banner. I simply downgraded to version 1.9.14. Same reading experience with no banner.

Has anyone had any success removing the offers/ads?