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I have both, but I only use the Sony. It does have something to do with aesthehics and design, and in my eyes the Sony wins. The HanLin has much the same look and feel as the IBM/Lenovo thinkpads, feels solid and nice - I just prefer the Sony look and feel. The buttons on the right on the HanLin is page turn buttons, so I think it'd work well for you.
There's no difference in the whiteness of the screens btw. I like how the screen colour blends with the silver sony casing, and the Sony was the first reading device htat truly felt like a book (in the beginning I instinctively kept trying to turn the page like a paper book - it never had taht 'device' feel.
The software on the Sony is also working out a little better for me, feels a little nicer to use, a bit more stable. I use it exclusively with Calibre btw., as I have a Mac, and with a variety of source material types. The books I buy are usually in .lit format from which I routinely strip the DRM before converting.
I like the collections sorting on the Sony. I prefer that over sorting in folder, as a book can then be displayed in several collections. I don't think the 'binary' sorting into folders is necessarily the best way to do it. I also don't have more than 100 books on the device, and I don't plan to carry around thousands. In that case real folders might work better.
The standard software on the HanLin had its quirks, and I couldn't get it to display rtf well and there were some other small but irritating things like that. Now that I just convert everything into lrf and has set the base font size to the 13 pt I prefer, I have no problems at all.
To me, it comes down to that the Sony looks and feels better (and that's important to me), and I am less bothered by software and file format issues for my use.
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