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Originally Posted by l_macd
Cdesja5 my question was directed at you as I saw you owned both 
I know the Kobo Touch got shelves added in a firmware update, but still got the impression that the Sony's possibly dealt better with large amounts of books, and the ease of organising them? What you mention about the Sony being able to sort them automatically using the tags seems to be by far the easiest way of dealing with collections, but maybe not?
I don't use it myself as I don't keep a lot of books on my ereader, but what about a used 650 with PRS+, although not as fast as the Kobo Touch/Sony PRS T1, wouldn't the PRS+ help with organising books more than the Calibre/T1 combination? And as already mentioned it has the SD Card which the 350 doesn't if you need lots of storage?
Depending on where you are, I'd hazard a guess that the Kobo Touch would be the cheapest option though. |
Unless you edit your tags in Calibre its not to your advantage to have it happen "automatically" as you could have the same book in 10 different collections based on whatever tags were already there. You have to make sure they go where you want them with both readers, so I don't keep the tags in Calibre, the column is absent by preference so that it is the custom column that you input that decides where they go. Therefore to organize is pretty much the same process for both Kobo and Sony in the end.
I don't root my devices and yes the 650 is a nice reader but if you have that many books that you really want to have "on device" you really need a tool like Calibre on your PC to make it easier/faster regardless of using prs+.
The reader itself can be a later model Sony or Kobo since they allow you the same end result.
The reason I prefer the Kobo is that you can also add a new shelf on the device itself and add books to the shelfs from within the book menu on the device. Therefore if you didn't want to use Calibre, it's still very easy to organize the books as you add them to the device or later at another time.