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I own all 3 (and then some), and I would say, for certain, either of the Sony's beat the Kobo hands down. The kobo has some nifty features, and you might be tempted to think it superior on casual examination. It's only after long use that the true horor of Kobo becomes evident. Factory resets, weekly crash of the touch sensor driver, short battery life if you actually read on it long period, seemingly monthly firmware updates that get almost forced to you with all new bugs introduced every time, and tries to force you to tether the device to a pc with their crapware installed. *ahem,* anyhow, not to derail the conversatoin too far, let me just that I've personally become very disenchanted with Kobo. Pity, since I really wanted to support the Canadian product.
As for the Sony's, I prefer the T1. Some people had a few glitches (I never experienced them) that should be resolved with the one firmware update. Probably not revelvent to most books, but the T1 has *much* improved image / picture rendering. And if the epub publisher actually inludes high res images with the epub, pinch zoom and fast scrolling with your figer is something unique to the T1 over all other readers. Great for maps, geneolygy trees, and other such images that often get included in books. Sadly, most epubs are releaed with the images so shrunken, all the detail is lost, and would need CSI style 'enhance' to be useable. I also really like the incrased number of font size steps in the T1. The one thing I would critize Sony for is the poor support for changing fonts. The 650 can't do it at all without hacking the device and writing custom css. The T1 was supposed to have font changing options, but the reader randomly fails to display the text in proper italicized/bold format when you try changing fonts.
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