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I chose 3.
My Touch is almost two years old. The problem with an older unit is that the components within it are not identical to the components in the same model built yesterday. The parts are similar, but not identical. That makes firmware updates for older units very risky.
I'm afraid one of these updates is going to brick my reader. And, given my experience with Kobo's customer service, it would be really tough to convince them that it's their fault.
As it sits right now, I don't apply an update for at least a week after release. And there have been two updates I remember that were pulled in that time frame. There may have been more.
What frustrates me is that, if I buy a book when an update has just been released--and that seems to happen a lot, I have to load the epub instead of the kepub to avoid the update. I prefer kepubs. It's one of the reasons I bought a Kobo in the first place.
It also seems that for every small, annoying bug they fix, they introduce a new small, annoying bug. Although, I don't have any hard data to prove it. It's just my impression.
This interface is good right now. I wish Kobo would just leave it as it is. Instead, it looks like they're trying to please everyone by adding new features. But you can't please everyone, so leave the older models alone. Or, let us chose whether we want to update or not.
Leslie
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