College textbooks don’t come cheap. Students have to pay a huge sum to get quality textbooks. However some good universities and websites allow access to free college textbooks online. Here are 10 of the best places to find free college textbooks.

1. Connexions

   Connexions is an educational content repository. It has more than 1000 free textbooks, journals and articles. These textbooks can be downloaded on your mobile devices for offline reading.

   

2. Bartleby

   Bartleby is one of the pioneers in internet publishing of literature and reference materials. These textbooks can be downloaded for free.

   

3. Flat World Knowledge

   Flat world knowledge offers free and open college textbooks. They have textbooks from well-known authors and scholars in their catalogue. These textbooks can be read online using their easy to use online reader. However to download an eBook you need to pay a small fee.

   

4. Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)

   CCCOER with help of other colleges and faculties are providing high quality and accessible open educational resources for free. They have a wealth of study materials which are in public domain or openly licensed.

   

5. University of Pennsylvania

   University of Pennsylvania has created a mini-sites of sorts which links to free textbooks available on internet. It has over 1 million free eBooks. The keeping updating the list regularly.

   

6. Digital Book Index

   Digital book index links to more then 150,000+ digital books from various universities and publishers. Around 100,000+ of these books are available for free.

   

7. Textbook Revolution

   Textbook Revolution links to free online college textbooks and other educational materials contributed by students and professors. Books are available in PDF formats and some can be read online.

   

8. Classic Authors

   Classic Authors keep adding free, HTML formatted e-text for your reading enjoyment. These books are of great help specially to student who are in research. As name suggest they have a page for each authors which list all books written by them.

   

9. Bibliomania

   The Bibliomania Study Guides have been created by a group of final year and postgraduate students from the top UK and US universities. The guides are aimed at the senior high school and undergraduate student. They include the most up-to-date and useful research on the literary greats.

   

10. New York University

    New York University offers free online mathematics textbooks, lecture notes and videos.