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I have a kobo color and like it but the software definitely lacking. I've also found it hard to find some mainstream books for purchase outside Amazon store which is hard.
Where do you find content and do you have any recommendations for third party software setup?
for content, i mostly pirate things, to be entirely honest. torrenting can be good for audiobooks, but for ebooks, searching archive sites like zlib or even just archive.org i find is often fruitful. alternatively, other P2P networks can be pretty good too (i find alot of stuff on soulseek (yes, the music-sharing network), suprisingly).
as for software setup, KOReader like i said in the comment. it's substantially more "complete" than the kobo base software, in that it's got a million options & seems to be able to do anything. not that it's terribly hard to learn, but there's a "user guide" on the website that's very straightforward indeed if you're finding it somewhat daunting. installation is fairly easy (guide for kobo here). the method i used was the "semi-automated" one that was basically just running a script. i should not that the above installs the 3rd party software "alongside" the base software, so one must start the device "normally" first, then launch koreader from a menu button (added by the install script)