Welcome to MR, Thunderdog. Congratulations on your new 650, and I am sure that your daughter will love her Christmas gift!
Are you ready? I have a few little links to places you may want to check out.
MobileRead's Patricia Clark Memorial Library has free ebooks that have been beautifully formatted by some very dedicated MR members.
ePub format
You can check the
MR Wiki page dedicated to free ebook sites.
Free and for purchase ebooks
smashwords.com and
baen.com Plus Baen has a
great free library
Some free ebook sites -
feedbooks.com ,
manybooks.net and
Project Gutenburg
You can follow the
Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading? Thread and get some great ideas about what other members have read and their comments.
We even have an
Author / Publisher Self-Promotion forum and a
Deals, Freebies, and Resources forum where you can discover something new to read (some are free or discount with a coupon code).
You can explore using
Calibre to manage your library of DRM free books and Kovid, the creator, frequents the forums here. We even have a dedicated
Calibre forum.
Here are some book search engines for finding and comparing book prices.. (books found with the search engines may be at sites that have DRM and geographic restricted books)
Inkmesh,
AddAll, and
eBookPrice.Info.
Have fun exploring the forums and just ask if you have any questions.