I've had nooks & kindles, and I sold them all as I love the highlighting, notation features of the reader software, and I can save my notes & highlights to an rtf document file for future reference and/or printing. If you don't need this feature, it won't be an issue for you.
I also like the fact that there is no wifi big brother monitoring my every book on my Sony. I had some side loaded books on my nook that could not be opened because I removed the (B&N) DRM. Same books opened just fine on my Sony.
