It feels like an iphone 8 keyboard that is about to die. It isn't the quickest thing in the world, but good enough to respond to texts and emails.

Works fine, this has the fastest eink screen available.

Kobo is notorious for having atrocious response time. I'm on my third generation of Kobo reader and it's still dogshit slow.

The periodic crashes are also really tiresome - I regularly have to hard-power-cycle the thing and often lose my reading progress. Why this has been a problem for 6+ years is beyond me but my guess is that they're spending very little on R&D/QA, running on an ancient SoC.