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In my experience between the Sony 350 and the Kobo Glo, the Sony readers have been much more touch sensitive and accurate than the Kobo readers. With the Sony it would take just the slightest movement of my thumb to flip the page, and it always worked. You barely had to touch the screen at all, even hovering above the glass but close enough to catch the IR beams would change the page. Highlighting was very accurate and the thin stylus worked just as well as your finger.
With the Kobo Glo, it was infuriating at times with certain firmware for me, where it would take up to 4 tries to get the page to turn. And that wasn't a rare occurrence, it would happen as much as 50% of the time I'd go to turn a page. Then I tried going back to an older firmware and while it was much better, it still wasn't near as good as the Sony. I stuck with that firmware for over a year before risking updating again. You still have to do a more deliberate, longer swipe to turn the page on the Kobo compared to the Sony, it's just not as sensitive as the Sony IR is.
Of course there were times when the occasional bug would land on my screen and flip the pages, and I always found it amusing at how sensitive the IR was (and liked it for that reason). It was pretty rare though that a page-flipping bug would land on the screen, so it wasn't a problem at all or a nuisance.
While I do read while I eat at times, I don't eat over the reader so it basically becomes a crumb tray. I've never had a problem with food crumbs getting lodged under the bezel with either reader.
So for me, Sony's IR was much more sensitive and accurate than Kobo's.
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