What's wrong with you people? Could anyone please answer the original question, wether it's better to buy a Kindle Touch or a Sony PRS T1? Because I'm deciding between these two, too.
All you do is pointing out that torrent e-books are illegal, instead of relevant comparison of the devices
Dissappointed.
To jmasta: I've read a lot of reviews and all say forget the "3G" in "Kindle Touch Wi-Fi + 3G", because it only applies to buying books and wikipedia, not for web browsing, however, since your device is meant to be mostly for reading, that's probably not an issue here. Also it doesn't have a lanscape mode, which "makes it more difficult to read PDFs". As for the rest of software, features and entrails, the majority of people agree that KT is exactly the same thing as Kindle 3 (keyboard) so it comes to the question "to touch or not to touch".
Personally I'm more inclined to getting a Sony, because of epub, storage, and even for those 5 buttons which are missing at KT. Main problems that people mention are
1. freezing - about a third of users hate it and return, the other third say "a couple of sleep modes solved it", and the rest claim they have never had such problems. Some also expect a new firmware to fix it.
2. Sony store. They say Amazon eBook store is much bigger or friendlier than anyone else's, which I can't judge, since I currently live in China and there are practicaly no e-books for sale from Amazon.
You might as well consider Kobo Touch and Nook Simple Touch, but those don't have web-browsers and i think there are no speakers or 3.5 jack at Kobo. basic comparison at
http://www.kobobooks.com/touch_compare, but of course, it's from kobo homepage, so they are slightly biased
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Sorry if I write about things that you already checked out on your own. Again, I, like you, am still deciding for one or another, I haven't seem nor touched one of them in real life.
Good luck!