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Today I found three more features that make pdf reading on the PRS-T1 easier. These are probably well-known, and I should have known about them, but nonetheless they slipped my notice until I decided to play around with the options, given the OPs questions.
First is the page mode feature, which will automatically go into landscape mode and zoom in to what it thinks is the width of the page. Then you can just press the right arrow and it will take you systematically down the page (i.e. like "page down" does on a computer), and then to the next page once you're at the bottom. It also has similar modes for pdfs that come in two or three columns. A bonus perk is that you *can* perform text searches while in these modes (i.e. it won't zoom out, as it does when you are in pinch-to-zoom mode). One issue is that in these modes, however, you cannot choose how much to zoom in, but instead have to reply on the preset zooms. (Crop mode doesn't fix this; it does something else.)
Second is that for pdfs that are text-based, you can actually change the font size, which will reflow the pdf and make it more like an ebook, so for instance you can make the font big enough to read in portrait mode. Of course, this fails to capture things like special formatting, equations, etc.
Third is that in the manual pinch-to-zoom mode, rather than dragging the page around once you've zoomed in, you can just tap once on any direction, and it will perform a "page down", except in the direction that you tap. In most cases, this is exactly what you want.
In addition to the features I already mentioned, these put the Sony Reader well ahead of the Kobo Touch. Furthermore, while it does take some getting used to (unlike, perhaps, with a tablet), once you get used to them you can use it quite effectively for reading straight through some text.
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