Why do you want to catch flies? According to a certain German designer to stock your new protein generator. Yummy, maggots anyone? I could not make this stuff up! Google it. May I be the first to say, "Ugh!" My apologies to such epicureans as Bear Grylls.
Anyhoo, on another front, my Touch soft bricked itself on an OTA firmware upgrade around 2.6.1... I was lucky enough to experience the restore to a Neanderthal firmware of yore at about 1.9.? and the resulting round of updates. Fun, fun, fun.
I think one must consider Kobo's past performance prior to giving people crappola about soft bricks or those requiring images. From personal experience, their updating process is hardly bulletproof. The troubling part is that it should be.
I think it'd be great if a base image for each device could be maintained for public download at either Kobo's website or a place of their choosing for those who require one. This nonsense of having to beg for one when needed when an official one should be available is a bit much. And no, I'm not poking around under the hood on mine. It came with just the right amount of instability baked in!
I pity those with a Touch without a removable internal SDHC if they encounter an update issue.