With all these updates, I really hope Rakuten takes note and releases a true Paperwhite competitor this year. I'm leaning towards Kobo for the more open ecosyst

With all these updates, I really hope Rakuten takes note and releases a true Paperwhite competitor this year. I'm leaning towards Kobo for the more open ecosystem, and the fact that you can sync books via Dropbox officially or via big standard Linux applications sideloaded onto the Kobo. However if Kobo even updates any of their readers this holiday season, I suspect they'd only update the Forma, which has a form factor more similar to the Kindle Oasis than the Paperwhite (and a price to match).