Download College Textbooks Online

Convenient, Cheap and Sometimes Free!

Download college textbooks online and save up to ninety percent!

The average student spends just under a thousand bucks a year on books. Just books. If you saved only fifty percent, over a four year pull... you would save around $2,000. Save ninety percent and you pocket $3600. And, that's if you're average.

According to the U.S. government accounting office, college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation over the last two decades. Prices tripled from December 1986 to December 2004. OUCH!

Very good reasons to download college textbooks online.

Below are my favorite resources for finding cheap or free college textbooks to download online...

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Download College Textbooks Online at Project Gutenberg
This is usually my first stop as they have 20,000 free online books. Copyright free. Most are classics.

Freeload Press
Ad supported free downloads. Many categories. Quality texts.

Light and Matter
Free physics textbooks. Professors please take a look at these beautiful adobe.pdf format texts.

Super Groovy List of Science and Math Texts
Free online Science and Math books - an extensive list by the fabulous, Professor Mark Dubin, at the University of Colorado.

Amazon - Read Your Books Online
This isn't exactly cheap - but I've used this service when I was desperate to get the book 'immediately'. Once you buy access to the online version - you still get the real book in the mail, later.

Google Scholar
Very useful and searchable database of scholarly books, articles and journals. Usually, the entire book is not accessible, but you can access a few pages, and that is often enough when you are writing a paper. Especially since you can search for a topic and access that particular page inside the book.

Books Google
Seachable database of full text online books. Wow. That's all I can say Google is WOW. And thanks! (You can toggle between all books and full view books.