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It's worthwhile talking about why we each made our individual decisions, if just to help someone else who's trying to decide what's important to them. You don't always know what's important to you until you actually have a chance to use the device. I had a Sony PRS-600 and switched to a Kindle 3 Wifi. The Sony was a well made, solid-feeling ereader, but I switched to the Kindle when I found out that Calibre could enable it to sync the page read with my other devices. That's a big deal to me, but of course it isn't to everyone...or even many.
Now that I have the Kindle, I find that I actually really prefer having a physical keyboard (even though I love my Android phone and Touch). The wifi access turns out to be a much bigger deal than I thought it was, since now I never have to connect my device to a computer. (I didn't think that mattered to me, but it turns out it does. Now I can be anywhere in the house, think of a book in Calibre that I want to read, and download it.)
I thought I would miss the Sony's ability to get tags from Calibre, but instead now I organize my books on the Kindle into two collections -- read and unread -- and I keep the books I'm currently reading unassigned to a collection, which leaves them on the home screen (because I have it set to view by collections so anything not assigned to a collection shows up). That leaves me a nice clean home screen and I can see at a glance what I'm reading. It works for me, and I find I'm finishing more books because I don't forget about them.
The Sony was a very nice device but the Kindle just works better for ME for those reasons.
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