Thanks for this tip about the low price. My wife is now the happy owner of a great little Kobo Mini.
Except for the horrible first experience - the initial software upgrade forcing her to configure the Wifi setup TWICE as a result, once to get the upgrade, and again after it upgraded (along with the 5 minutes of screen flashing that looked like it was stuck in a loop) so she could complete the setup of her account (that was just a dumb thing to do to a new user), she is now very happy with it.