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ONLINE BOOKS: Collection of Free Downloadable Online Books

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:32 GMT

Greetings,

ONLINE BOOKS is a collection of more then 1 million free books.

Today’s site — ONLINE BOOKS — was created by the library of the University of Pennsylvania and contains more then 1 million volumes. That’s an impressive number by any standard.

While the site itself is very spartan in comparison to commercial [...]

HOTFREEBOOKS: Free, Online Books

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:00:20 GMT

Seasons Greetings,

HOTFREEBOOKS is a a web site offering more then 20,000 freely accessible online books.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I hope you are enjoying this festive day with family and friends and perhaps sampling a gift or two that Santa Claus left you. If you didn’t get exactly what you were hoping for, perhaps [...]

FREE-EBOOKS: A Web Site Offering Free Ebooks

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:00:40 GMT

Greetings,

FREE-EBOOKS is a web site offering free ebooks for downloading.I’m not sure how I missed this site since I love free ebooks and this site looks like it’s been around of a while however, thanks to the good folks at MakeUseOf I intend to remedy that oversight.

Users must first sign up for an account, before [...]

CUSTOMGUIDES: Free Downloadable, “Cheat Sheets” For Most Major Apps

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:00:01 GMT

Greetings,

CUSTOMGUIDES is a web site offering free downloadable quick guides or “cheat sheets”

What a great find! A collection of two page guides or “cheet sheets” for most major operating systems and current applications.

Each guide contains all the fundamental commands for general activities (such as printing, saving, opening and closing a file), navigating and [...]

45 New, Free, Creative Commons Books

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:44:21 GMT

Greetings,

45 relative new books have recently been made available under the Creative Commons banner.

Wow, free books! I was raised in a time when books where one of the primary means of entertainment and information transmission so I am still amazed by the prospect of getting a free book (even if it is in digital format), [...]

CALIBRE: Free App for Managing E-Book Collections

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:11:36 GMT

Greetings,

CALIBRE is a free downloadable program (not web based) for managing a user’s e-book collection.

While e-books have not yet reached the level of popularity and acceptance currently enjoyed by digital music – it’s only a matter of time. Then users will need a program to manage their digital book collection in much the same way [...]

ELEARN MAGAZINE: Free, Web Based Journal About ELearning

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:55:43 GMT

Greetings,

ELEARN MAGAZINE is a free, online journal focusing on e-learning.

I like this e-zine. Unlike many similar publications which require the user to endure countless ads, complete endless surveys or have a paid subscription to access stories and articles, ELEARN is completely free and open. Click on the link to an article and the [...]

35 Websites For Free Ebooks Download

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:57:52 GMT

Greetings,

35 Websites For Free Ebooks Download is a compilation of web sites offering free ebooks in various formats for downloading.

Fellow blogger Shravan from the “Smashapps” blog has compiled a list of 35 web sites offering a wide variety of ebooks available for downloading – at no cost. Some of the sites have been featured in [...]

TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION: A Web Site with Free Educational Books & Materials

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:28:46 GMT

Greetings,

TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION is a student run web site with a listing of free, downloadable textbooks and other educational resources.

Free Textbooks?!? Yes, they do exist. Part of the open curriculum/content movement currently sweeping across many campuses. As the creators of the TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION web site put it,

“Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated [...]

CK-12 FLEXBOOKS: Free Digital Textbooks

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:52 GMT

Greetings,

CK-12 FLEXBOOKS is a web site containing free, PDF formatted, downloadable textbooks.

I think most folks have heard about the “Open Curriculum” movement. It’s an initiative embraced by several universities in the US (including MIT) and elsewhere to make their course curriculum, content and resources available to anyone who wants it – for free. [...]