[jridley]

I just bought the Nook Touch. It was between that and the Kobo Touch. I've had a Sony 505 for several years. I did look at the Sony but the Nook had everything I wanted plus slightly faster page turns, and the Nook is a dream to hold in your hand. If there's an uncomfortable way to hold the Nook Touch, I haven't found it yet.

The Sony does have more features, but I don't want any of them.

True that the Nook does only give 235 megs or so to load your own books, but I don't think I've ever loaded that many books on a reader anyway. I only generally keep 30 or 40 books on at most at once.

FWIW, I side-load everything, even if I buy it from the B&N Nook store, because I have a deep-seated loathing for DRM. I will probably never turn the radio on on the Nook now that it's set up. I have absolutely zero interest in any of the "social" features. I'm hardly ever in any location that has WiFi available anyway except my house.

I came very close to buying the Kobo instead, and it appears to me that if PDF reading is important to you, the Kobo may be the better choice. I really hardly care at all about PDFs so for me it came down to form factor, and I absolutely love the feel of the Nook in my hand.

FWIW, I have gotten so used to the ereader with the Sony 505 that I really preferred it over paper, because it was so much easier to handle. The Nook Touch is easily twice as nice, and now I simply won't buy paper at all, except for things like large color photograph coffee table books and the like.