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Most stores have them in stock, still, as well. I'm not sure I'd bother - I picked up a touch (at a similar deal from BestBuy) a couple of weeks ago. It took four days of rebooting (including several manual deletions and re-installs of the software) before getting JUST my sony books onto the reader. I only succeeded when I stopped trying to use the Sync feature --and even then, it was three tries, during which it would randomly refuse to copy some books (but report success), refuse to eject the reader and one time the reader decided it wanted to reformat itself. At least the Calibre books I installed went on without a hitch.
Compared to my Kindle (original, let alone later ones), I can see why the Sony never really took off (not to mention the store book pricing, until they finally caved and started having at least a few at competitive prices) and the Kindle sold like hotcakes. And that's before even starting on the reading experience (ok, but here it is, a several generations later reader, that isn't as friendly as the K1; but at least it has collections).
It's hard to imagine the Kobo would be much worse an experience (better on the PC interface, but possibly a bit less for reading), especially if you take the advice of those who have started with it already and skip it's software as well, as the sync feature is apparently just as bad.
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