Free Online Books

"Ok, I understand that online learning stuff. I can get the notes from some websites. whatever. But is that all? What about other learning resources I may need? Where do I get books and...?"

Hey, hold up. All these questions for me? I will anser just one. The books.

Yes, when learning online, you will need books just like in a normal traditional class. These books are most often called electronic books, and in various formats like pdf, doc, xls, pub, html, etc. You can actually get them free of charge an arm yourself for online education.

Some websites organise free books into categories for surfers to easily locate them. Some of these free books are downloadable while others are "read-only". For the downloadable ones, you might need acrobat reader or/and office installed on your PC. Most often, I prefer the downloadable ones because I can access them offline. Though the read-only books can also be saved on the PC, I think that may be against copyright laws.

I am going to list some websites that offer free books online, but I won't give a review of any because the principles are almost the same; you visit the site, you sign up (or not), browse books by topics, authors, categories or year of publication.

I have personally tried many. I will bet these are the best.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org
www.pagebypagebooks.com/
http://www.readprint.com/
http://2020ok.com/
http://www.onlinebooks4free.com/

When I talk about "books", what exactly comes across your mind? Web pages displaying texts from published books, or links to download the books in electronic format? Is that it?

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Yours truly,
Ferdinand CHE