I have an Aura HD and I applied the patch within the first day:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=220171
I would not want to go back to the eyesore and clumsiness of wasted space at the bottom. There is a screenshot in post #13 of the patch thread. The HD has been out for a while, and Kobo seems unwilling or unable to do anything about some of the rendering bugs.