Shelves/collections are very easy on the Kobo, it is built into calibre's device driver. (It edits the Kobo database.)
For the Kindle it is a little harder. You need to jailbreak, and install the Kindle Collections plugin to calibre, export the collections file to the Kindle, and use Collections Manager kindlet or LibrarianSync to add them to the Kindle. Not THAT difficult, but still, something to think about.
One interesting thing to note is that the kindlet allows you to create nested, hierarchical collections on the Kindle. (WARNING: This was broken as of firmware >= 5.4.2 -- but you can downgrade if that is important.)
There is also a fonts hack for the Kindle, so you don't have to give the Kindle up just because you want fonts. Of course, you may still prefer the Kobo. But I figured it is worth mentioning.
One last thing. In order to do any of this with the Kindle, you of course need to jailbreak. Currently this is impossible with the Kindle Voyage. It is a new device and our old jailbreak mechanism was "fixed". We hope a new method will be discovered, but in the meantime, hacks are limited to the PW2 and earlier models.
I happen to be a big fan of the Kindle interface for its clarity, simplicity of use, and lack of clutter.
They don't have SD cards, but my outspoken opinion on the matter
is that you don't need one:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And since the 3.5GB in the Kindle Touch can hold about 3,000 average-sized books, you don't need expandable memory. If you read 100 books A DAY you will still have one month of reading on your Kindle. At a more reasonable but still exorbitant 3 books a day, you will have nearly 3 YEARS worth. I'm sure somewhere along the way you can get to a computer and swap them for new ones.
(Same logic applies to every other eReader, including the Kindle Paperwhite which has (shudder) a measly 1.5 GB and about a year's worth of books.)
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That even leaves room for storing a thousand or so favorites for quick reference.
The Kindle will not slow down under the load, except, understandably, when doing a global inside-the-book search.