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While college is a fantastic way to gain knowledge and valuable skills, it's understood that going to a university is expensive, and textbooks can make the bill go even higher. However, you don't have to break the bank to finance a good education; there are plenty of places on the web where you can find and download free online textbooks for nearly any class available.
Here are sources on the web you can use to find free content for many college classes, all freely available to either download and print offline or view online in your browser.
You don't have to necessarily be enrolled in an official college class to take advantage of these resources! If you are looking for opportunities to enrich your knowledge, this is a great way to do that. You can also enroll for free in a huge variety of college classes available from reputable universities all around the world.
While many college classes and professors are completely fine with students downloading materials for their classes online, it's suggested that students check the class syllabus for approved materials ahead of time, and make sure that the content that is downloaded is compatible with class requirements.
The first place to start when looking for a textbook is Google, using the filetype command. Type in filetype:pdf, followed by the name of the book you're looking for in quotes. Here's an example:
If you don't have any luck with the book's title, try the author (again, surrounded by quotes), or, you can also look for another type of file: PowerPoint (ppt), Word (doc), etc. You'll also want to check Google Scholar, which is a great place to find all sorts of academic-oriented content. Being proficient in specific search techniques for Google while using Google Scholar will help you quickly drill down to exactly what you're looking for.
Open Culture
Open Culture, a fascinating repository of some of the best content on the web, has assembled an ongoing database of free texts ranging in subject from Biology to Physics. The list is updated on a regular basis.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT has offered free, open courseware for several years now, and along with these free classes come free college textbooks. You'll have to search for specific classes and/or titles of books on the site in order to find what you're looking for. Overall, there's a lot of free content available here on a wide variety of subjects.
Textbook Revolution
Run by students, Textbook Revolution offers free books organized by subject, license, course, collections, topic, and level. This site is easily searchable with a healthy amount of subject matter available.
Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge is an interesting site that offers college and university texts free of charge, mixed with other applicable resources that serve as supplements. All of the books are free to view online within your browser.
Online Mathematics Textbooks
Professors from the Georgia Institute of Technology have collated an impressive list of online mathematics texts, ranging from calculus to mathematical biology.
Wikibooks
Wikibooks offers a wide variety of over 3,000 free textbooks in subjects from computing to social sciences.
Free Digital Textbook Initiative
From the California Learning Resource Network, the Free Digital Textbook Initiative offers a good selection of free content materials suitable for both high school and college students.
Curriki
Curriki isn't just about free textbooks, although you can find those at the site. Curriki also offers a fantastic array of free educational resources, anything from science kits to novel studies.
Scribd
Scribd is a huge database of user-contributed content. Sometimes you can get lucky and find full textbooks here; just type in the name of your book into the search field and hit Enter. For example, one simple search found a full, comprehensive text about quantum physics mechanics.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers a wide selection of over 50,000 texts, with even more available through their partner websites. Browse through their categories, search for something specific, or take a look at their entire catalog.
ManyBooks
ManyBooks gives users the ability to search within a catalog of over 30,000 books, as well as genres, authors, publication dates, and more.
Online Library of Liberty
The Online Library of Liberty offers a wide variety of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. Over 1,700 individual titles are available here.
Amazon Textbooks
While not free, you can find some pretty amazing deals on college textbooks, far better than your campus bookstore, at Amazon.
Bookboon
Bookboon offers a wide variety of free textbooks here. You will need to give your email address to this site in order to download anything and will receive a weekly update of new books and additions to the site. Premium access is also available for a fee.
GetFreeBooks
GetFreeBooks offers a wide variety of free ebooks with a good selection of categories, anywhere from marketing to short stories.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is simply laid out, giving users the ability to search within selected subject areas for free textbooks.
OpenStax
OpenStax, a service offered by Rice University, offers access to high-quality textbooks for both K-12 and university students. This project was initially kicked off for college students by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Reddit User Submissions
Reddit has a subreddit dedicated to sharing what textbooks any user might have (and is willing to share), as well as those looking for textbooks and needing help locating them online.
These free French worksheets will test what you've been taught to make sure you're actually learning and progressing through the French language.
Print them off to evaluate how well you know your numbers, colors, and common phrases and words in French.
When you're done with these worksheets, consider trying French audio resources and language learning software.
Do Your Know Your French Numbers?
Learning your numbers is the basics in any language. Print off these free French worksheets to test how well you can translate numbers and English words to and from French.
Download PDF - Draw a line from each French number to the picture it describes. You're tested on numbers 0-6. An answer key is included.
Download PDF - Match the 10 numbers together using the English and French words. Two additional parts of this worksheet have you translate larger numbers into French. The answers can be found in this PDF.
Download PDF - This worksheet has you circle the correct French word that represents the number of objects in each square. Other exercises are in this one worksheet as well, like matching English and French numbers and writing the French number that comes next in the sequence. All the answers are included.
Test How Well You Know French Colors With These Free Worksheets
These worksheets have you either write the color you see in French or color the image with what you translate from French. Either way, you're tested on your translation of French colors.
Download PDF - Translate 10 phrases that have to do with colored items you find on a beach. You must translate back and forth from English and French.
Download PDF - This is a fun exercise to test whether or not you know the basic colors in French. You must color the house in the way the instructions tell you to, and then check your colors with the answer key to verify that you're right.
Download PDF - Very similar to the previous worksheet, color the sky with the proper colors that are shown in French. A colored image is available as the key.
Download PDF - Write the French word for the color of each of these five animals. The correct answers are included.
More Free French Worksheets
All of these French worksheets are also free, and test you on other things like animals, nouns, phrases, and other French words.
Download PDF - Four easy and four medium crossword puzzles can be printed from this one PDF file to test how well you know French words that have to do with transportation. Answers are not included. Similar ones can be downloaded for School and Education, Shopping, and Adjectives.
Download PDF - This 17-page file has a handful of sets of questions that test what you know about French grammar, like present tenses and imperfect tenses. All of the answers are included in the last page.
Download PDF - Here are 10 words and phrases in French that you must translate into English. Some examples: I need, Have you, I'll take, and Please. Answers are at the bottom of the second page.
Download PDF - These 10 animals are easy to identify, but do you know what word to use to describe them in French?
Download PDF - Match up the French words with these 10 animals.
Download PDF - You're given six pictures, and you must match them with the French sentences that describe them.
Download PDF - Can you accurately translate this French nursery rhyme into English? The correct translation is on the second page of this PDF.
Download PDF - Read the French passage and see if you can answer the three true/false questions.
Download PDF - With this printable worksheet, you must rewrite 20 French nouns with the correct definite article in front of them. All the answers are included in the second page.
Visit Download Page - This entire worksheet is in French. After reading the prepositions pertaining to where the monkey is in relation to the boxes, you must answer a handful of questions about them. You need to create a free user account with this website before you can download the PDF.