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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
I'd say two separate reasons... First, and most important, I don't know how. Second, even if I knew how, I'm not sure if I want to spend my time messing with it. (I'm still failing to understand why DRM is necessary - the music industry seems to have gotten along without it and there are publishers and authors who get along without it.)
What I did end up doing was buying a Kindle 2nd edition (no backlight) and a cover for it at Barnes and Noble last night - they are available on closeout at some stores. ($80 for both including tax.) I've uploaded all my Baen books to it. Today I'll load the Harry Potter collection on it, then try to scrape together all my files from Gutenberg etc.
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I don't follow your frustration with Sony at all...
If you have sync'ed your Sony reader and the Sony library software, you have a copy of all of your books on the computer. Sony gave lots of notice for you to download any books you didn't already have in local storage.
Since Sony used Adobe's DRM standard, you should be able to read those books on anything that has an Adobe renderer in it like Adobe Digital Editions on a Windows or Mac machine, or in Aldiko book reader for Android devices, on Nooks, or on Kobos and I'm sure there are more out there.
Generally if you move from one device manufacturer to another you are going to lose your books locked into that store. In other words, if you bought from Apple's iBooks on an iOS device or Mac, if you bought Kindle format books from Amazon or kepub books from Kobo you are out of luck when you move to a different platform unless you break the DRM. Sony actually chose the only DRM that is accepted across multiple manufacturers.