> People seem to love the Kindle. Is it because it was the first?
Not the first, by any means, but Amazon have done a great job of 'mass-marketing' them to the general (internet) public.
> 1. I will be traveling to/living in South Korea next year. Will both of these eReaders have a large amount of books available there? I've heard that a lot of Sony's books are now USA only, while the Kindle seems to have 3G throughout the entire country.
You might be confusing the books available to be sold to some one in South Korea, which is likely to be broadly similar, on one hand with the wireless access which the international Kindle has on the other.
> 2. Screen quality. The Kindle I'm trying out doesn't seem to have any glare and is very clear. Is there a significant difference between it and the Sony?
It's different, but significant is down to the user - probably need to see one to compare.
> Also, there is not much delay in switching pages on the Kindle, but it does go black to change it. Does the Sony do anything like this?
Yes, it's a standard eInk think - after a few minutes you'll not notice it.
> 4. Downloading books from libraries. Do these ebooks expire? Do I have to delete one before downloading another? Is there a limited amount of books I can download in a certain amount of time?
They expire after the loan period completes (e.g 21 days) unless 'returned' early. You can normally have a number on loan at a time, but details are down to your lender, not the device. To have then on the Kindle, you need to jump through various hoops with scripts, etc, whereas it's part of the standard Sony functionality.
>just try really hard not to get caught without a book to read
Note that books only take small amounts of memory, so you can store many hundreds on your device, even before considering external cards, so you don't need wireless just to be sure there's always something to read once you've stocked up with the many free books around!
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