The Kindle is Kindle 2 and the Sony is Sony 700. I still say the Sony is the easiest to use and with Calibre to manage books way easier to load. I am really jazzed about the Calibre 5. It really sucks that once you buy a book it cannot be transfered to another device. Seems like if it is yours and you paid for it you should be able to do what you want. I tried to send (email) a book to my Kindle and it didn't work. If I bought a paperback it would go where I wanted it to.