Buying an ereader: Kindle, nook or Sony Pocket Reader

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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

[elf]

I don't know what kind of OS the Kindle has. (Linux something-or-other, I'm sure.) I don't know if the core system is flexible enough to add another ebook format--logic says it should be (epub is HTML in a zip file), but logic and code don't always meet. It's possible they couldn't add epub support without wiping out the whole system and starting over, meaning losing all one's listed books, bookmarks, notes, filing system and so on. And if that's what it takes, they'll offer it on newer devices and not upgrade the old ones; too many people would get confused/upset at losing their data.

The Magic Words to google for DRM removal are "skindle" (to remove Kindle DRM) and "mobidedrm" (for mobi books from other places) and [inept cabbages] for Adobe DRM. (Oh, and convertlit for .lit files, which are almost obsolete at this point.)

The "inept" system (by coder i♥cabbages, named after Adobe's "Adept" DRM) involves installing Python (possibly a specific version of Python) on your computer and running a script through it that will allow you to decrypt a DRM'd ADE ebook that you can normally read on your computer.

I don't know the details; I don't deal with DRM at all. There are veiled discussions at Mobileread about problem-fixing. It doesn't touch the Kindle at all; you use it to crack other books, and then would have to run them through a converter like Calibre to make them Kindle-able.

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

logic says it should be (epub is HTML in a zip file), but logic and code don't always meet. Trufax. Interesting info! You might be right that they'd only put it on a new device, but hopefully not.

That's good to know that it won't go on the Kindle - that makes me more inclined to investigate. Thanks so much for the info!