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My personal feeling is, if it sounds like something you may someday find interesting, even if it's not a genre you'd usually read, why not? Unlike physical books, free ebooks don't cost you a penny and they don't take up space. Yeah, they take up a few megabytes of space on your ereader, but so what? As long as you have room, who cares? I downloaded thousands of free books. Mostly PD, though some which were free for a time. I stopped downloading every free Smashwords book because I realized a lot of them weren't worth bothering with, but if the description sounded remotely interesting, I figure it doesn't hurt to have them. Plus, I strip DRM from my books and keep an off site backup of everything on Amazon S3. That means that unlike physical books, which I have to worry about packing up when I move, my ebooks will always be available, they'll never get lost or damaged and if 20 years from now there is some new format that is popular, I'll still have my books because I stripped the DRM and I cans simply convert them (I have no doubt that conversion software from ePub and othe popular formats will be available to whatever the latest and greatest is).
I know others think I'm crazy to have thousands of books on my reader, but I happen to love reading and love the idea of knowing I can always find something to read without having to first log onto my computer and download something. Or if I had a Kindle, log into Amazon and buy something. Bottom line, do as you like. It's your reader and your life to live as you choose.
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