There is a growing variety of free e-books and associated educational material available for either download or online use. These include:
- Classic books — largely novels — that are beyond their copyright dates, but which are still used extensively by schools for all grades.
- The beginnings of the development of electronic textbooks covering many K-12 curriculum subjects.
- Educationally-organized access to non-book Web resources.
The following is a short list of e-book sources that Textbook Central has found to be particularly useful. Note that one of the Web-Books links provides a list of 175 classics, selected by Textbook Central, that may be easily sorted by title, author, or classification.
eBook Source | Subcategory | Format |
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Google Books | All Books (some in preview mode) | Web |
Literary Collections | Web | |
Just Free Books | Search Mechanism for Free eBooks | All formats |
KnowledgeRush | All Books | Mostly text |
100 Great Books | Mostly text | |
Middle School Reading List | Mostly text | |
Project Gutenburg | All Books | All formats |
Web-Books | All Classics | ePub, Web |
Non-Fiction Classics | ePub, Web | |
Wikibooks (open-content textbooks) |
Books by Subject (some in development) | Web, PDF |
US History (example) | Web, PDF |
Textbook Central encourages both public and non-public schools to take advantage of these electronic resources to both reduce costs and enhance educational opportunities.