Is the Kobo cool?

My household acquired the new Border’s e-reader, Kobo, on the weekend. The Kobo was
released on Wednesday and with the dollar crashing to below 80c at one point on Friday I
figured it might be now or never.
There’s no particular connection to Melbourne or to urbanism in this article but as this is the first
time I’ve ever been a real early-adopter, I thought I’d share my experience. Perhaps my rationale
can be that I’ve always had a page on this blog titled My Reading.

This’ll be a brief review because I haven’t really had much time to look at it, but based on my
(limited) experience over the weekend and my wife’s slightly more extended experience, here are
the pros and cons of the…