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What bugs me when I read someone saying Kobo or Nook is now competing Sony is:
- Kobo has a defective dictionary, meaning one can only look up words in Kobo bought books
- both Nook and Kobo don't have PDF reflow
- there is no feature in neither of them that is comparable to the collections
- does any of them have dictionaries for any foreign languages? This I have not seen in specs and thus suspect they don't
- None can play MP3s
The fact of both using now Pearl screens and IR technology doesn't make great readers. Great readers also have great reading features made possible with the firmware. And this seems not be the case with Kobo or Nook.
I expect all new readers from now on to have a Pearl screen. So this is no killer feature anymore just standard.
All those two now do is clever marketing. So now you can compete with Bob and Jill on who reads faster, but they don't give you device features, just social gimmicks.
And who knows? It is perfectly possible all the shortage of the 650s and special prices of the 350s and 950s is due to Sony coming up with new readers soon.
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