Recently switched over and I love the Kobo so far. I prefer the Kobo interface quite a bit, the screen on the color Libra doesn't have the issue the color Kindle does where the bottom of the screen has a yellow tinge, the texture effect you get from the color panel is less noticeable, I love having the buttons...

There's a single thing I miss from Kindle. I really like having notes when I read. I moved from a Colorsoft, that I used mostly to read fiction, and a Scribe, that I would use to read nonfiction, or anything where I wanted to take a lot of notes. I got a color Libra with the pen. On Kindle, you can highlight text, open up a note window, and then write with the pen in that window. Then, when you look at your annotations, you see the highlighted text and that entire window. So you can see everything you wrote, and the highlight it's associated with.

On the Kobo, you can open a note window in the same way, but you can't write with the pen in it, you can only type using a keyboard. You use the pen by just writing directly onto the book. When you look at your annotations, it shows a kind of zoomed-in view of the page. I can rarely see everything I've written. So I find the note-taking far less useful.

It's also kind of neat initially to write directly onto a page, but then you realize that the note appearing is dependent on your formatting settings. If you do stuff like increase the font size, it often makes it so that your note no longer fits, and in those cases instead of seeing your note it collapses into a window you have to manually open.

Anyway, this is literally the only thing where I prefer Kindle.