Congratulations!
Re: the shelving thing. Apparently if you root your Nook, you can apply certain features across the board to all your books, and not have them only "work" for the B&N-acquired books. Voids your warranty though, but plenty of people do it anyway and there's lots of people on the Nook forum here who'll be happy to help.
You probably already know this, but there's plenty of time-limited publisher promo free B&N books given away every week. They're mostly evangelical Christian fiction and steamy romance, but if those aren't to your tastes, there's also mystery/thriller, sf/fantasy, and general literary fiction showing up on an occasional basis.
Just check the Deals forum here, or better yet, a thread on B&N's own NookBooks discussion board called "Free NOOKbooks summary thread", where a guy very kindly lists all the still-available ones with an update every few days on the last page.
Happy reading!
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