Free textbooks are so easy to find now that we have access to the World Wide Web. I remember copying pages of books by hand at the library, for hours and hours at a time. While I did enjoy it, the internet has definitely made my life a whole lot easier!
Free textbooks for homeschoolers
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- Free textbooks for homeschoolers
- Archive.org
- American Institute of Mathematics
- Biochemistry Free and Easy
- bookboon
- Loyal Books
- Open Education at BCcampus
- E-Books Directory
- Free Science
- Chemistry First
- FullBooks.com
- Public Library of Science
- LibriVox
- Science Books Online
- Textbook Revolution
- Textbooks Free
- Cool 4 Ed
- Other Free Textbooks
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Archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more:
- 40,000+ Art Books
- 6,500+ Recipe Books
- 11,000+ Fantasy Books
- 8,500+ Biographies
- 1,000,000+ History Books
- 44,000+ Music Books
- 26,000+ Medicine Books
- 1,800+ Plays
- 15,000+ Textbooks
- and more
American Institute of Mathematics
Books cover these topics:
- Algebra
- Trigonometry
- College Algebra and Precalculus
- Calculus
- Differential Equations
- Linear Algebra
- Geometry and Topology
- Number Theory
- and more
Biochemistry Free and Easy
Studying biochemistry? Download these books for free:
- BIOCHEMISTRY FREE FOR ALL 1.3
- BIOCHEMISTRY FREE & EASY
- Kevin and Indira’s Guide to Getting Into Medical School
bookboon
Empowering you to succeed, academically and professionally: quick skills learning through audio talks, eBooks and online courses.
Free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform.
Download free student textbooks on a variety of subjects, including:
- Personal Development
- IT
- Leadership & Strategy
- Project Management
- Marketing & Sales
- Statistics & Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
- Engineering
- and more
Loyal Books
“Books should be free” is their motto, and boy do they deliver! Find classics from authors such as:
- Alexander Hamilton
- Jane Austen
- William Shakespeare
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- and more!
Check out their Top 100 rated free books.
Open Education at BCcampus
At BCcampus, we’re using open technologies to facilitate, evaluate, and create open educational resources to share across the province and around the world; saving millions of student-dollars through hundreds of open textbooks adopted in thousands of classrooms:
Find open/free textbooks on many subjects like Art and Design, Science, Health, Humanities, and more. Here are just a few of the free textbooks you'll find at OpenEd:
- Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
- Education and Career Planning Open Course
- Building Blocks of Academic Writing
- Intermediate Algebra
- Principles of Microeconomics
- World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
- and many more
E-Books Directory
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.
Main categories include:
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies
- Business
- Children's Books
- Computers
- Cooking
- Engineering
- Health & Beauty
- Humanities
- History
- Law
- Literature
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Religion
- Travel
Free Science
Sites like these are perfect for me because I'm not that great at Science LOL.
Get free books on:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Economy & Finance
- Engineering
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Physics
Chemistry First
An Introduction to Chemistry by Mark Bishop.
FullBooks.com
This is a very simple site. Search by title.
Public Library of Science
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
PLOS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Rigorously reported, peer reviewed and immediately available without restrictions, promoting the widest readership and impact possible.
- PLOS ONE
- PLOS Biology
- PLOS Computational Biology
- PLOS Genetics
- PLOS Medicine
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS Pathogens
LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks. Volunteer to be an audiobook reader! Tons of books on this site.
Science Books Online
Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science:
- Computer Science
- Physics
- Medicine
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Mathematics
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- and more
Textbook Revolution
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content. Subjects include:
- Biology
- Business
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Science
- Economics
- Engineering
- Health Sciences
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Sociology
- World History
Textbooks Free
Textbooks Free covers many subjects, and many grade levels.
Free high school textbooks include:
- Accounting
- English
- Financial Literacy
- History
- Reading
- Test Prep
- and more!
Cool 4 Ed
The University of California offers:
Other Free Textbooks
- A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
- Anatomy and Physiology (plus some free resources like quizzes)
- Botany online – The Internet Hypertextbook
- Concepts of Biology (plus free resources)
- Chemistry – Grades 10-12
- Chem1 Virtual Textbook
- Earth Science – Middle School Grades
- Oceanography
Learn another language:
You can learn any language at home, for free! I highly recommend checking YouTube, too.
Want to learn even more? Check out this list of 1,500+ free online educational courses by Open Culture.
