[porkupan]

Very interesting review. Good pictures, good comparison points.

Having never actually handled a PRS-350, I would still disagree with a couple of your points.

1) PDF support better on K3? Is it really so? The previous experience tells us that Kindle only had very basic PDF viewing support, without search, reflow, highliting, notes, TOC and hyper-link support. This may have changed now, but Sony has had support for that functionality for a long time. I would like you to elaborate on this point a little bit.

2) Browser support a plus? For some people. For others it's a distraction. I haven't used the browser on K3, but the older model's browser was such a pain to use that I would much prefer using my Android phone. I also wonder if pop-ups offering to join a WiFi hotspot can get annoying after a while. You can't argue with "free" though.

3) Store integration. Good and bad. Good that you can easily buy a book when you want to read it. Bad that it will lead to a lot of impulse buying and moneys wasted. Locked into one big bookstore monopoly. A convenience for some, irritation for others.

4) The font rendering engines are actually better on Sony (I believe experts would agree). If you try embedding Amazon's (or any other set of TTF) fonts into EPUB and reading it on Sony, you will see that the fonts are rendered beautifully. Amazon is good with their particular set of Caecilia fonts, terrible with most other sets of fonts.

5) Right justification problems in MOBI (apparently started since firmware version 2.5). Some text is fully justified, some is not.

6) I believe the dictionary support on Sony is way better.

7) I would like to hear about the battery life in normal operating conditions. For Kindle "normal" means "with wereless on", I suppose. There is no hardware wireless switch, and most people wouldn't bother switching it off via the menu.