Google Books (books.google.com) has a very comprehensive index of books including a vast collection of free public domain and out of copyright books and magazines that have been scanned in collaboration with a number of Public and University Libraries.
Not all books can be downloaded, as Google also indexes details on commercial books (and offers links to locations to purchase the hard copy) some are only available for limited preview. To limit your search to books that can be put on to an ebook reader limit your search to "Full View only" or "Public Domain only". Only Public domain books appear to be downloadable and it's worth limiting your search by publication date as a vast majority of the public domain content was published before the 1900's, this can be done using the advanced search or adding a date range search filter to your query e.g. to find travel books published between 1980 and 1990 try the search
travel date:1980-1990
Books can be viewed online using Googles online viewer, downloaded directly as a pdf or epub, or as mentioned in the previous post the Sony Reader Store includes integration with Google Books to download and sync directly with the Sony Reader
Overall, in spite of the quantity of books available, the quality is somewhat limited for general ebook downloads, unless you are looking for old classics.
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