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

[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

I have a Kindle and while I love it, I'm not sure that it would suit you from your list of criteria.

Like the sorting/collections - Kindle's collections are very simplistic. You can re-order your items within a collection by Most Recent First, Title, or Author, but that's it. Though I use Calibre frequently, and my books have some tags, I've never seen the tags show up anywhere on the kindle device. I suspect that they don't, or I would have seen them somewhere.

You can browse the web on a kindle, but it's not a very nimble system. It's webkit based, and still very slow-loading. It's nothing like a smartphone or ipad or Nook Color, which mimic the experience of browsing on a laptop/desktop.

What the K3 has going for it is how light it is. You can read with it in one hand easily, for hours. And the long battery life.

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

I did wind up getting a Kindle and I love it. The light weight and battery life were really big selling points for me, and are what made me choose it.

The sorting features work well enough for me. I just wanted to make sure that it did have some sorting features.

The web isn't as nimble as an iPhone, but it still does what I want. I'm able to check the AO3 and LJ to read from the Kindle. Maybe Amazon will develop it further if people express an interest in it.

Thanks for commenting! :)