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Hi parkher and thanks for dropping by.
I still love the Sony but they've really dropped the ball with not upgrading to Carta. That's one of the reasons I switched. Front light was important for me too, because my eyes are very sensitive (wearing-sunglasses-outside-all-the-time-sensitive) so reading with the light on was getting painful. I'm not sure if you've tried a front lit reader, but it really has nothing to do with LCD/LED.
As for rooting and tweaking: I'm tired of that. I hate Android and I don't care for having a myriad of applications that do the same thing (allow me to read). I'm pretty OCD about having the books with the metadata and covers as I want, as well as about organizing them. I really don't want to bother with doing that in multiple reading apps. So I wanted an e-reader that allows me to organize things as I like, has decent dictionaries (Kobo does, it hasn't failed me yet and if push comes to shove I have a phone with awesome dictionaries on it) and - most important - has a great screen.
Other than the H2O, Paperwhite 2 and Voyage I think that Tolino Vision 2 and PocketBook Ultra have Carta screen with IR. Also, if you do consider the Kobo, the Developer's Corner is very helpful if you want to try out things.
I agree with you: Sony had everything working great, too bad they abandoned the race.
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