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Wow, thanks for the responses everyone. It appears I need to do a little clarification.
I am absolutely open to the Kindle, and I realize people have very positive feelings about it. I've heard a few horror stories of people trying to sideload books and it's bricked, but they are vastly outnumbered by positive reviews (apparent in this thread) and I absolutely realize the people who speak the loudest about a product are the minority that have had problems with it.
I don't need to retain the epub format, I just haven't used Calibre with a Kindle and wanted to verify that epub and (to a lesser extent) lit and text-based pdf can be converted to the Kindle decently. I've converted lit and pdf to epub to use with FBreader on my Windows tablet and it's worked fine, so I assume they can also be converted to mobi.
I've read that Nook will also sync with android, but only with their content. I've also read that the Kindle can syn sideloaded content if converted using Calibre, and if that's true then I am definitely leaning towards the Kindle. I was going to wait and get an android tablet (which I still might), but I'm now thinking a dedicated ereader is worth the money.
The ability to handle PDFs with a lot of images is a plus, but well below the other points I'm concerned with.
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