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Hi I bought a PRS300 first which gave me a taste for ebooks. I then went through the hoops to buy a nook.
The Sony is well built, feels solid in the hand and looks good, but the 5" screen is it achilles as it takes many clicks to work through a page, and I find myself clicking every 30 or so seconds. Battery life is excellent, i've seldom seen it drop a bar, although I do regularly connect to the computer to sort out books.
You can create collections which allows me to create categories like 'read next' 'already read'
The nook screen whilst a bit more reflective is larger and has a lot more font sizes to choose from, which means you turn the page less often. The battery life is poorer, although turn off the wifi and you will get several days out of it. Feature wise for me the ability to buy a book from B&N and have it drop off wireless to the device is great.
Sideloading is fine on the nook, I use ADE but you can use Calibre, but there is no concept of collections and no search in the 'My Documents' part, only in the B&N section. The coolest thing on the nook is the cover flow, and I have download over a 100 useless books just to get some stuff on the cover flow (hey they were free, ok?)
Nook is considerable bigger than the Sony which can fit in a jacket or jeans pocket if that is a factor.
I never liked the PRS600 and for the UK price, it is better to buy a kindle, even if you end up locked into Amazon's ecosystem.
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