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I dropped into my local chapters to check this item out. I have a bebook 6" and have been using it for some time now to read mostly PDFs.
The stock books, as expected, displayed well. But I brought along my sd card (call it my library) to see how they looked. The helpful and informed Chapters agent was thrilled at this because they had not yet had a chance to try SD cards out. My first mistake was bringing my main sd card with a lot of books on it because the Kobo "synch"s them. This took a long time. A long long time. What was it doing? Indexing? Cataloguing? Ordering concert tickets? Doing my laundry? The second time I popped the same card in only took seconds, so whatever it was doing it saved some information.
The PDFs displayed but the deal breaker for me was that they did not resize well. Normally I would expect it to reflow the PDF so that when I change size I see less words on the screen, and the words are bigger. In this case I would just page more. In the Kobo case I have a virtual window on the page and use the blue button to move around within the page. This I find annoying. Especially when my existing bebook does this for me.
What did display displayed well, but since my card is 1 gig I found the performance on the card slowed all the operations down to the point of it being unusable. Was this because I had a lot of files on the card or because I was accessing document from the card? I don't know. Either way the speed on card was too slow for me. I would be interested to know if others have similar card issues.
As far as the PDF reflow is concerned does this mean that I have to use their PC based software to modify or convert every file I want to read on the device? This too would be a pain.
Otherwise I like the form factor and the feel. The price is good too.
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