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My first ereader is one candidate. It was a Kobo 2. It lacked a touchscreen, it had only two font choices, serif or sans serif, I had to transfer books to it via USB, and non-Kobo books didn't work as well on the device. However, it was comfortable to read on, and I read a lot with it before getting a Kindle Touch.
The other candidate is the Nook Simple Touch. I got this for the sake of rooting it, and I already had a Kindle Touch at the time. While I still use it, it's mainly for a checklist Android app I run on it. As an ereader, it's not nearly as good as the Kindle Touch. One dealbreaker is that it sometimes loses my place in the document. While I was just comparing the same book with the same font in my Simple Touch and my Kindle Touch, I found out that the Simple Touch sends me to the wrong place when I click on a footnote. This is another dealbreaker. I'm not sure why, but books feel less comfortable to read on the Simple Touch. It might be its wider, shorter screen, it might be that I have a darker skin on it than on my Kindle Touch, or it might be that its case is not as easy for me to hold. It has no ability to handle custom fonts. It has no web browser, which means no ability to look things up on Wikipedia. However, some things in its favor are that it handles block quotes better than the Kindle does, and when I look up a word, it provides a much fuller and better formatted dictionary entry than the Kindle does. On the downside, though, I could not find a way to open the dictionary. But it does provide a dictionary search when it pops up the definition window, and its keyboard includes left and right arrows, which makes correcting typos easier.
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