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Welcome Tony.
You have pretty much summed up the situation. If you buy a Kindle you will pretty much be locked into Amazons ecosystem. If you get the Sony which uses epub you will have greater choices in where to get your books.
Now if you are willing to strip the drm from the Kindle books (see Apprentice Alf for this) you can utilize a program called Calibre to format change the Kindle book into an epub and then can load it onto the Sony.
I'm not interested in being locked into Amazon for my books, nor am I interested in Barnes & Noble for the same reason. You can't load Nook books onto a Sony either unless you strip the drm.
I regularly strip the drm from my books because I want to keep them & put them on any reader/tablet I might have. I refuse to trust any company/cloud etc. for the storage of my books.
That's why I download all of my books to my pc & sideload them onto my reader and make sure to back up my library to an SD card & a seperate hard disk backup drive.
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