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E-Books Guide

A resource for everything E-Books: FAU e-books! Equipment, apps, articles, web links, plus free books and textbooks!

(Mostly) Free eTextbooks and Courseware

Free eTextbooks and Audio Textbooks (with advice of new free books available via Facebook, Twitter, email or RSS feed)

NOTE: Always check to see if the price is free ($0.00)

Name

URL

Specialty

Free (Ø) or Fee ($)

Kindle Books

ePub Books

Other Formats

Audio Books

Via Facebook

Via Twitter

Via Email / RSS

BookBoon

http://www.bookboon.com/

Free textbooks, PDF format only. Includes ads within the pages.

Ø

   

X

     

X

Curriki

http://www.curriki.org/

K-12 free, open course materials, including free courses and textbooks. Free Membership.

Ø

   

X

     

X

Flat World Knowledge

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Free and open college textbooks.

Ø

   

X

 

X

X

X

Free eBook 4 U

http://www.freeebook4u.net/

Free eBook downloads. Many in PDF. Includes Textbooks.

Ø

   

X

 

X

X

 

Free Tech Books

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Includes Tech books, Textbooks and lecture notes, most in PDF format.

Ø

   

X

     

X

Inkling

http://www.inkling.com/

Interactive textbooks for the iPad and the Web. Requires free “Inkling” app.

$

   

X

 

X

X

 

Open Access Textbooks

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/websites.html

Extensive list of hyperlinks to many sites for open textbooks and open access courseware. Includes some “for fee” sites

Ø

$

   

X

 

X

X

 

Pink Monkey

http://pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp

Free online Literature Summaries, with over 460 Study Guides / Book Notes / Chapter Summaries, most in PDF and RTF format. Fee for printing.

Ø

$

   

X

       

 

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Last updated on Sep 10, 2024 3:14 PM