[MrTea]

Just picked mine up yesterday. As I'm 2/3 of the way through The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis I thought I'd download it on the Kobo for an immediate comparison.

I am initially a little frustrated at having to turn the page so frequently. Perhaps it's something I will get used to, however it is very noticeable that the Kobo takes a few seconds to change a page. That wouldn't be too bad if there was a decent amount of text on the screen but there isn't: it's all double spaced meaning frequent page turns.

I had a brief thumb through the forums earlier and apparently using Calibre I can change the line spacing. That is fine, I am glad that it should be possible to adjust the line spacing but it does lead me to my last two observations:

Maybe I am alone (or naive) but I would think that on an e-reader the ability to adjust line spacing and text justification would be a standard out of the box. (Yes I know it's a low end reader but these aren't hard things to do.)

Last observation is that I was surprised to find it easier to load new ePub content 'from the wild' than purchased content through the kobobooks.com site using the Kobo application. Just a comment to the guys at Kobo, but if it's easier to load non purchased content through shareware than your own application that is what many people will do. Path of least resistance and all that...

Great forums by the way, a wealth of information - keep up the good work!