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If you want one stop shopping, the a Kindle your best option. The Kindle store is the largest single source of US-rights ebooks, and it is also the cheapest source of those ebooks.
Another advantage of the Kindle store over the Sony store is that AZW (MOBI) format DRM is circumventable but Sony's LRX format DRM is not. This means that if later on you decide to buy a different brand of Reader AZW ebooks can be transferred (if you strip the DRM) but LRX ebooks can't. However, it is possible to own a Sony but only buy Adobe PDF or ePub ebooks which, like AZW, are circumventable.
The disadvantage of the Kindle is that there is only one source for DRMed content (the Kindle Store). With the Sony's you can buy Adobe PDF and ePub from many stores. This includes UK-rights ebooks that are not available for the Kindle. If you are willing to strip DRM this disadvantage disappears since the Kindle reads DRM-free MOBI and all formats can be shifted to MOBI once they are DRM-free.
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