Buying an ereader: Kindle, nook or Sony Pocket Reader

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone! I’m probably going to be buying an ereader for Christmas and have narrowed it down to the nook, Kindle or Sony Pocket Reader. But I keep debating over them and thought I’d see what the users have to say.

Amothea says that the Sony Pocket Reader supports collections and has excellent sorting abilities:
My Supernatural collection has over 300 stories but I can within the collections sort by date, author, title, and etc. And once I have the title or author selected it gives me a list A-Z so I can jump to the author at the end very quickly.
Do the Kindle or Nook do anything similar, like support the tags from Calibre? I prefer the look and feel of the nook and Kindle, and they are less expensive than the Sony, but this feature is excellent.

　
Kindle: I REALLY like the long battery life and light weight of the 3G but I have a few questions.

1. I think I heard that fics uploaded to the Kindle from Calibre can be tagged and the Kindle will display those tags and the related ebooks, but I’d like that to be confirmed.
2. Can you browse the web on the Kindle? I think I’d really use that feature for finding new fic that I want to put on the device, and I know the nook can do it.

　
Nook: I LOVE the ability to add extra storage, and to browse the web. I think I’d use the web browsing to find new fic often.

1. Does the nook (black and white) have the ability to create My Shelves like the nook color? Can you sort through books in a collection by author, title, ect?


Is there anything I need to know, good or bad, about the devices? I think I’m leaning towards the nook, but I’m still not sure. I’ve got more thoughts about ereaders here.

Comments

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

I use Kindle 2, and it doesn't display the Calibre tags. Possibly Kindle 3 does. Kindle organise in collections and has a good search function enabling you to find content fairly easily.
I am a bit puzzled that Amazon are "constantly" taking back content, as far as I know it has only happened ONCE. And that was the publishers, not Amazon itself. I am sure Amazon made sure future contracts covered this properly. This is clearly a kind of publicity they don't want.
Nook is not an option for me, not living in US, but if it was I think I would have considered it a very good alternative.
My experience with Kindle is that Amazon has improved it majorly twice since I bought it and seems very keen to follow the input from users. But it remains to be seen what happens with updates for Kindle 2 now that Kindle 3 has arrived. Anyway, that is always the risk one runs buying electronics. I am certain Nook will arrive in new and improved versions too, and there is a limit to much updates old ones will receive.
EDIT And yes, Kindle can browse the internet, I use it a lot for finding info about what I read. But I've never tried to download anything. The browsing improved a lot after the last software upgrade, but it is still obvious that this is not a computer, and the processor is scaled thereafter.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

I got curious, and checked, and no, you can't download from the Kindle webbrowser, it just hasn't got that feature. Actually I would not assume you can download to the Nook with their inbuilt browser either, as they don't say so and these browsers are made specially for the devices.

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded books from Project Gutenberg onto the Kindle using the Kindle Web Browser.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

You're right, from the Gutenberg project it works! Thanks for the tip, that is so much easier than via PC.
The other site I tried with fanfic e-books didn't works, but maybe I did it wrong. I just have to test and see what works.

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very cool! Thanks for telling me!

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

That's good to know about the Kindle collections, that's exactly what I'm looking for. It's also good that the Kindle is updated often, I've heard that it has excellent customer support. Thanks for taking the time to tell me!

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

My main reason for going with Kindle was that I have been buying from Amazon for many years, and found that nobody beats them on customer service. They have not disappointed me with the Kindle, going as far as calling me to help with problems (I live in Europe).