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Here is where I would like to collect a list of free online textbooks, books in general, ebooks, audiobooks, courses and lectures, etc. Add yours if you have a good link!

Free online books/resources:
Textbook Revolution - Probably the best known (and possibly largest) one for free textbooks; searchable
The Assayer - Discussion and links to free textbook resources
Textbooks in Mathematics - Mathematics Textbooks
FreeBooks4Doctors.com - Links to, and discussion about lots of free Medical Books
WikiBooks - Lots of free Wiki Books
The Online Books Page - Links to tons of free books (hosted at the University of Pennsylvania)
Free High School Science Texts - Science Textbooks, mostly at the high school level
FreeTechBooks.com - Free computer science books and lecture notes
Project Gutenberg - lots of free books, searchable by name (or you can list by most popular, etc.)
PubMed
195 Free Online programming books - The name says it all really
2020 OK.com - Directory of free Online books
http://www.ebooksclub.org/ - They have everything from textbooks to popular fiction.
The complete notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - All of Leonardo's notebooks gathered into a single file.
http://www.totallyfreemath.com/ - Free math book published because they think the cost of textbooks is too high.
LibriVox - Public Domain Audiobooks
AvaxHome - Lots of ebooks, audiobooks, etc.
HarperCollins - A major book publisher has just started offering many of their books for free online

Free online university courses:
MIT OpenCourseWare - Lots of free course material for self education, provided by MIT
UC Berkely iTunes U - Lots of courses (perhaps every course?) from Berkeley University free through iTunes.
Stanford iTunes U
Open Courseware Consortium - A bunch of universities that put their course material online for free
Wikiversity - Same concept as wikipedia, but with online courses. They have assignments, homework, etc. for each course.
UC Berkley Online Classes - A Ton of online video and audio lectures from just about every course (look back at previous semesters if you don't see one) This one is really good if you want to watch all the lectures from an entire semester of courses.


(Note: Some of these added in later responses, but I am putting them all into this thread for future people viewing it)
Edited by Live Forever, 20 February 2008 - 03:15 AM.

I do know that MIT have some courses that have mp3 recordings of the lectures, too. I've downloaded a bunch and use my iPod to listen to university-grade lectures on topics I am interested in. Sometimes some visualization is required, because I don't download the handouts, but I do just fine.

Don't forget PubMed

UC Berkely iTunes U - Lots of courses (perhaps every course?) from Berkeley University free through iTunes. Combined with the MIT OpenCourseWare link above (and of course the other free textbooks out there), you could theoretically self administer yourself an entire degree (of course no piece of paper proving it)

Stanford iTunes U Same as the free UC Berkely one above, but with Stanford mp3s

and here is another one I found:
195 Free Online programming books - The name says it all really


Edited by liveforever22, 05 May 2006 - 09:55 PM.

2020 OK.com - Directory of free Online books

Great resources, I've been looking for more creative ways to review previous course material without dragging out old texts. I wonder if I couldn't get away with skipping those biochem courses and still score high on the specialty GRE...

http://www.ebooksclub.org/

They have everything from textbooks to popular fiction. A search for "biology" yields 225 textbooks.... "forgotten realms" will give you 144 books from that fantasy collection... etc. Its nothing short of amazing.

This is not a text book but her is a Online Bioinformatic post graduate program coming from London that I am curious if is any good. Do any of our brethren from that isle know anything about this group?

Birkbeck University of London

World-class research in Bioinformatics

Here is a nice article about how there will be a third of a million ebooks available for free download during the first World eBook Fair.

"Downloads will be available at the fair's Web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg's founding, through Aug. 4."

This doesn't 'quite' fit the bill. But it's close enough, and I think significant enough in what's available to plug. The website for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. While the book isn't free, there's a treasure trove of source code based on the material presented within it that's online for the taking. The book itself is worth buying for anyone interested in AI, in my opinion at least. But it does come with a rather hefty price tag. Imports of the softcover edition might be a good price lowering option for someone interested in checking it out.

Not really a book, but I thought interesting:
The complete notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - All of Leonardo's notebooks gathered into a single file. Free from the Gutenberg online library.

Google Books is starting to get better. Finally, you can sort the full books those with only 3 pages available.

http://www.totallyfreemath.com/ - Free math book published because they think the cost of textbooks is too high.

MIT is now putting their entire curriculum online:
http://www.iwr.co.uk...tire-curriculum

This is not a text book but her is a Online Bioinformatic post graduate program coming from London that I am curious if is any good.  Do any of our brethren from that isle know anything about this group?

Birkbeck University of London

World-class research in Bioinformatics

I know this is very late and if it's of any use, but the Birkbeck group as a whole are known, but I wouldn't say hugely so, although one of their members (Lorenz Wernisch) is pretty good - have come across his work a fair bit.



The online joint venture between Manchester and Leeds http://wunlearn.leeds.ac.uk is probably more prestigious (they're much better ranked research wise than Birkbeck) and also Manchester Uni has just recently opened it's big integrative biology centre http://www.mcisb.org.

MIT is now putting their entire curriculum online:
http://www.iwr.co.uk...tire-curriculum

I so love OCW, have gotten quite a few good notes off there. But then I always find myself noseying around - the best course I found was one on "Kitchen Chemistry", looked kinda cool, cooking things and learning the science behind it.

MIT is now putting their entire curriculum online:
http://www.iwr.co.uk...tire-curriculum

I so love OCW, have gotten quite a few good notes off there. But then I always find myself noseying around - the best course I found was one on "Kitchen Chemistry", looked kinda cool, cooking things and learning the science behind it.

Ooh, that is something I would be interested in. I love cooking.

(here is the link to it that I found from a Google search, if anyone is interested: http://ocw.mit.edu/O...eHome/index.htm )

How awesome

I showed it to my other half before (he's a chemistry teacher) and we're going to have a go sometime, especially as he knows a lot of the answers to the related assignments and I'm a way better cook than him. Could modify it for kids so they learn some of the science behind the food they eat.

The liquid nitrogen ice cream is always fun whenever I've seen it done !

this ones pretty cool

http://www.ocwconsor.../use/index.html [glasses]

Not sure if it has been mentioned other places, but Wikiversity has a lot of free online learning utility with a lot of tutorials, courses, homework assignments, etc:
http://en.wikiversit.../wiki/Main_Page

HyperPhysics
Like a book, just not linear.

Mathematical Atlas
A complement to the other mathematical sites, for a clearer learning path.

Eprintweb
Nice if you use arXiv.

I don't think they have any textbooks online (yet), but LibriVox is a great place to get public domain audiobooks. I think I'm going to start recording for them, too. Anyone know of any public domain transhumanist books?

Also, here's Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.

Anyone know of any public domain transhumanist books?

Just what I know about, some books, some papers:

Journal of Evolution & Technology
Dynamical Psychology
Principia Cybernetica
SIAI Core Reading
Online Texts

Much public domain transhumanist literature seems to be in academic-article form, with the distinguished exceptions of the Eric Drexler books found through the last link, so I selected the others based on their unique combinations of breadth and depth. I would also be learning something new if there were book-length, strictly transhumanist non-fiction books online not to be found through any of those links.

http://www.avaxhome.org/ - As discussed by deanwebb in this thread.

Also, I never put this one in here, but here are just about all of the online lectures from every course (if you don't see the one you want, look at previous semesters) for UC Berkeley:
http://webcast.berke...edu/courses.php

I have gone through a lot of them (watched each video from the first to the last through the whole semester) and they are quite informative.

Also, I am adding all the links of relevance in this whole thread to the first post in this thread, for future people viewing it so they don't have to read through the whole thing. [thumb]

You can find lots of classics here:

http://www.bartleby.com/

Science:

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

One of best reference sites for mathematics:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Edited by amara, 18 January 2008 - 08:30 PM.

HarperCollins (a major book publisher) is now offering lots of books for free online:
http://mashable.com/...-free-previews/
(that is the news story, you must go to the website to see a list of the books you can get for free)


...also, a book that was featured on Oprah and offered for free made headlines when more than a million copies were downloaded in less than a day:
http://www.huffingto...eb_n_87136.html

Ebook help we can learn about anything online.
Ebooks

http://books.google....id=CdKWgqJoX_cC
Handbook of the Biology of Aging
Partially readable online as a google book preview.