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And it surprised me a bit that book's availability is not one of the main features when choosing an ereader, not as per this poll. Which makes me think: or users simply do not care if they will find their favorites books online or not... or DRM cracking replaces that fear or obstacle.
I really weighted the book's availability criteria a lot and was the main reason why I sold my Nook and bought the Kindle 3 instead, giving the case I was not able to find, natively and without DRM removal, the computer books I like and need.
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Please buy an e-reader based on the kind of books you read and like, not on the device's brand or name.
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You should take into account your sample - majority of people on this forum are computer savvy - current DRM cannot be a big obstacle for them (and only minority considers removing it for their own usage an issue). The results of the poll would probably be significantly different if you had a more representative sample.
However, from my own experience, the availability of books I want is pretty mixed - some of the books I want are only available with epub drm, some others only with azw drm. Furthermore, it is impossible to predict the format of the books you will want in the future. So one would basically have to end up with several devices, only being able to read specific titles on specific devices if he wanted to play according to the drm rules. I certainly do not want to be a prisoner in that world and would choose not to enter the paid ebooks world at all if I could not remove the drm from them.
Ah, just to answer your original question - the device_quality/price ratio was the most important parameter for me.