Kbahd260--I'd be interested to know why you decided to buy an eink reader rather than a tablet of some kind. I'm not meaning to be obnoxious, but it looks like you have so many things you wish to do that are better suited to another kind of device.
The Aura HD does have a browser, but it is fairly rudimentary. I use it to download books from Calibre server, but not much else. I find either my phone, tablet, or computer are never all that far away from me and all of them have much better browsers. YMMV.
I do understand that the Kobo devices are fun to hack. At an earlier point in my life, I'd probably have bought one just for that
