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Barry makes the important point that many people look for an ereader that is easy to read on and easy to carry around. For them organisation is not a big issue.
I have come to ereading late in life. I am a photographer and am conversant with computers and tablet as they are an essential tool for my trade. I travel with an Android phone and an Android tablet. The latter also doubles as a device for viewing the images I shoot and also as a Satnav in my car. I also found I could buy ebooks and read them on the tablet.
Where the tablet suffers is because I bought the one with the (banned in Europe) AMOLED screen it is pretty useless in sunlight. As an experiment I bought a Sony T1. I rooted it and loaded an email system. It already had a browser. Had it worked I could almost have ditched the Android tablet and even followed the hack that can turn it into a satnav.
What I learnt fast is that the T1 is not a computer like an Android tablet. Its processing power is pretty poor. So I put it in a drawer and forgot I had it.
A month ago my wife had an operation on her right hand that made it hard for her to hold even light paperbacks. As an experiment I dug out the T1 and loaded her current novel. To my surprise she took to the T1 instantly - and this is a lady who is the least computerate I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.
We are now a four Kindle family. Why four? Because we travel a lot and are frightened as to what happens if one or other of our Kindles die or get lost.
We tried the H2O and it was sent back within two days as my wife preferred the size of the Kindle.
I have Calibre. I can do all the organising we/I need within that. We don't have a library of a thousand books - but if we did (a) I can organise them with Calibre and (b) we don't need all thousand on holiday.
For our holidays all we 'need' to take is much the same thought process as what we used to do putting paperbacks in the suitcase.
If you need a fully flexible library organiser then you probably need something smarter than an ereader - such as an Android device.
OK. Much of what I have said is the same as Barry. But I felt it might help as I came to my decisions by a slightly different route.
Tony
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