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It's good to remember that people being who we are, we're all convinced that we each bought the best reader our there. Some of us don't respond as well to suggestions that some other reader is better than ours. For instance, I will never, ever, have a reader with a big cluncky keyboard like the Kindle has. I can introduce you to people who are just as passionately against anything with a touch screen or without WiFi or 3G. It all depends on what you want.
In answer to your questions, yes, all of the readers are light weight and easy to hold. However, I have arthritis in my thumbs. Pushing a button more than once a minute will cause pain to quickly intrude on the reading experience. Also, I like to hold my reader from the bottom, the same as I always held my books. This puts the buttons of the PocketBook 360 or the Kindle in the wrong place for where my thumbs are located. It's not something you think of until you're turning the fiftieth page.
It is possible to customize the fonts on all three. I have Calibre set up to do that automatically for me. The Sony is a bit more difficult because it doesn't ship with firmware that supports different types of fonts. There are very easy work arounds that keep it from being a major obstacle. All of them allow you to adjust font size, but my eyes aren't as good as they used to be and something a bit larger than paperback print is most comfortable for me to read.
Sony was the first reader to have collections and still supports them. You can create collections on the reader, but it's much easier to use Calibre and let it do that for you. If you install PRS+ on your reader, you get an add on that provides better font customization, folder support, and some other neat features.
The price for the current collection of Sonys have tended to go down when the new readers are released.
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