coolpickoftheday

The wonderful thing about the Internet is the sharing of information. The following sites have 1000's of free books and articles. The Cool Pick of the Day is actually all the below links. I thought that since they all are offering a great service, they should all be considered the C.P.O.T.D.

Free Technical Book Links - A growing list of free book references here! Great source!
http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books

The Internet Archive - A vast source of Texts, Education Material, Moving Images (movies, films, etc), Audio, Software, Web archives... truly amazing!!!
http://www.archive.org/

Books published by O'Reilly That have been either "Opened" or started as Open Books from the start.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

"The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics." (from their site)
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/

"This site lists free online computer science and engineering books (+lecture notes), all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet." (from their site)
http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Many Free Books Sources. There are some purchasable books here to but you can just ignore those if you want.
http://homepage.mac.com/kaotech/Free_Books.html

Many Free Books Sources. There are some purchasable books here to but you can just ignore those if you want.
http://www.nap.edu/

There are 18,000 free books in the On-line Book Catalog.
http://www.gutenberg.org/

A Listing over 25,000 free books
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Free Medical Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/fb/english2.htm

Many books that are in the public domain
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

Children's materials in their original languages
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/

A Directory of Free On-line Books
http://www.free-book.co.uk/

Wikipedia Projects
http://wikipedia.org/

# posted by TheGuardian : 11:53 AM