Today there are many places on the Internet that promise free textbooks, unfortunately most of these are scams, and the websites will load your computer with tons of spyware, or worse. Despite this, there are a few places where you can get tons of free e-books. Although you are unlikely to find free textbooks, you will be able to find free electronic versions of many books, primarily classics, but also many other novels that may be required reading for many of your intro classes.
The best site for free e-books on the web is the Gutenberg Project; this site is dedicated to scanning literature and currently has thousands of books in its database. The other cool thing about this site is that many of the books are available in multiple formats, including audio for some books. This means that if you already know what you are looking for in the book, you can hit “ctrl+F” in your browser and find the right section of the book right away. This is a great study tool, and I recommend using it to prepare for exams after you have read required sections/chapters.
Another great place to find free books is Google Books. This is great because Google Books has tons of books on file and people working there are scanning more books constantly. However the problem with this is that you are unable to search for keywords, since the pages are displayed as images, and you are unable to copy or manipulate the images in any way.
More locally, some public libraries, especially state libraries and presidential libraries, offer electronic data and sometimes access to private electronic book catalogs. One such catalog, if you are studying in the IT sector, is Safari Tech Books Online. It is by far the most complete computer books online catalog; books are readily available. To access books requires a membership, but, as stated before, this might be included in your membership with your local public library.
If you do not find what you are looking in freely available electronic format, do not despair! More books are published in electronic format every day and many more are being converted to electronic format so even though the book you are currently looking for may not be available, the next one might very well be.
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Yeah That ‘s true there are many spams happening in downloading free books from internet.You can get many viruses from other sites.So you have to be very careful.