[meeera]

In my opinion, pretty much yes, but I haven't had a new Touch in my hands so I can't speak to that from personal experience. In my opinion the biggest ugprade the Kobo has had since the original Touch is in lighting. The larger screen, even lighting, higher resolution and contrast, and waterproofing of the H2O is lovely, but it's the lighting itself that was the biggest difference for me, the move from Touch to Glo.

If your device is mostly for reading, the issue is what the page looks like (hardware plus layout features), and perhaps other features like organising your books and suchlike. Firmware is more or less the same across the board with Kobo, so you're down to size, lighting, resolution and suchlike mostly.

But I really don't care whether page turn speed is a fifth of a second or a third of a second - it's fast enough for me either way when it's down to the fractions. Ditto with search speed - when it's fast enough, it's fast enough. I'm picky in other ways.