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This is one of the key reasons why I've decided to return my Kindle 2. I recently spent more than an hour in a local Borders playing with the Sony Reader and I have to say I was soooo disappointed with the Kindle 2. Granted that wireless is a nice feature in the Kindle, but the fact that PDFs are not natively supported and that in order to read a scientific paper (or textbook that I legally own in PDF format) I have to jump so many hoops has really made me decide to return it. And, if you've tried to use Amazon's conversion you probably already found out that it is useless for anything except pure-text documents.
Here is what I did, and what I suggest you do to verify if the type of documents you want to read render better in the Sony Reader. I put several PDFs of documents I typically read in a Sony memory stick ultra (or you could do it in an SD also) and went to Borders. Just plugged the SD card in the display unit and there they were all my PDFs ready to use. After turning the reading mode to landscape, most of the PDFs, specially the books were 100% readable.
Hope this helps
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