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ITA about the whole moving books thing, we moved a couple of months ago and I never notice how many books I have until I'm carrying them into a new place and they are heavy.
I've never bought ebooks from B&N and only one from Amazon, but from searches I've done of their catalogs, I've yet to come across a book that wasn't available in both, although I have found books that are available in these 2 stores and not in Kobo, Sony, or Google Books. The prices have seemed similar across the board too for the books I looked at, granted not searching in a particularly focused manner. Still, most of the ebooks I have are epubs from project gutenburg or Fictionwise. I suppose you can do the whole conversion thing to get your ebooks on a kindle, but why bother?
I really like the touch screen on the Sony Reader, in fact, when I was preparing an old Sony 300(non-touchscreen) for my grandmother, I kept touching the screen and needed to remind with the Kindle at BB yesterday before I myself to use the buttons. Now that I think about it, I did the same thing remembered that I was looking at a kindle, not a Sony reader. YMMV about how important touch is for you, but I think it's more intuitive. While the technology works well on the Sony readers, B&N may not have implemented it as well on the new Nook. That said, I'm totally picking up the new Nook this weekend if my local B&N has any.
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