[Lucas Malor]

The device seems to be good, but I've some little problems with it. I don't know if Kindle is better, since I don't have one.

1. when you power it off, it displays the book cover. This is nice, but I'd prefer to see the last page I opened. The same when I re-power it on.
2. IMHO built-in light is useless... pages are highly readable even if the light is turned off. On the contrary it bother a little when it's turned on, even if I minimized it. I think it could be useful only if I can't have an external light, for example when I go by metro
3. the touch screen seems to be a bit unresponsive. Sometimes I must touch another time the screen, maybe with the little finger, since first touch is not acquired by the Kobo. I must say this is my first touch device
4. you can't resize the font using two fingers, as you can do with many touch tablets
5. you must wait 1 - 1.5 seconds before accessing to "text mode" (where you can use the dictionary, highlight text etc). It could be useful a button that switches to "text mode"
6. there's not an app that let you write text files (you can find one installing KoboLauncher )
7. there's not a way to disable annoying and useless achievements... even if I must say they appears for few seconds Yes, there is, thank you robko.
8. there's only one rotate button, if you rotate and you want to go back, you must rotate other 3 times
9. if the orientation is landscape only the document aspect will be changed, so you'll have menus at the left and right of the screen and you must click over the top of the screen to turn page
10. you can't change orientation in a epub document, so if you have images in the document you can't see them in landscape mode
11. device turns on when you charge it. This is bad for the battery
12. bookmarks are listed under the other annotations, so they are hard to find if you have many notes and highlights
13. when you select a word, also punctuation characters are selected. This is problematic when you perform a search
14. empty pages are displayed anyway, even if they are useful only for real books
15. if you search something in a book and go to one of the results, you can't see the page number, turn page or perform other actions like this without dismissing the search
16. there's a little bug with cbz comics
17. there's a little bug searching inside books
18. the fact you can bookmark pages is hard to discover... who reads manuals? :-D

What disappointed me a lot is the software:

1. there's no linux support, that's strange since Mac OS X is supported
2. you must install the software also on pc to install / update it on Kobo
3. searching books is extremely difficult, it's more simple to use the website and sync
4. the app seems to do a lot if hd I/O. I noted this because my windows partition is on a very old PATA hd

Fortunately I don't need it, and I can update the firmware by hand.

I also noticed that I have no preinstalled books and there's few free e-books. Instead Kindle is integrated with a bookstore with a lot of free e-books in my country. Anyway I think this is a problem related to the bookstore.

To sum up, I think Kobo Glo is a very good reader and I'm really satisfied, but I'd not recommend it to someone that want an esay-to-use device.