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Old 11-18-2015, 10:26 PM   #1
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Recommendations for free, yet hi quality non-fiction?
More thinking of academy books, sociology, history, algebra, psychology, computer science, technical stuff, finance and stock markets, chemistry, biology, and other deep stuff that's up to date, and good (filled with up to date information).
I find it harder to find good quality material from the free non-fiction section
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Old 11-18-2015, 10:38 PM   #2
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If you're into computer/IT/programming tech type book Packt Publishing offers a different free title each day...

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning


Also may be of interest...
http://www.sciencebooksonline.info
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Just in case you don't know MIT OCW has a lot of coursework online for free. Textbooks, lecture notes, videos.
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I've found most of my free nonfiction books by following the Deals, Freebies and Resources threads on this forum.

However, while hunting one particular book, I found out that the University of California Press has hundreds of nonfiction ebooks available online here covering a truly impressive number of subjects.
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More thinking of academy books, sociology, history, algebra, psychology, computer science, technical stuff, finance and stock markets, chemistry, biology, and other deep stuff that's up to date, and good (filled with up to date information).
I find it harder to find good quality material from the free non-fiction section
There is a site that a lot of universities use to offer free online courses. Places like U of Michigan, MIT, Princeton, UVA, Yale, U of Edinburgh etc. Many of the classes are the same as those offered on campus.

https://www.coursera.org/

Many of them offer free online coursebooks and other supporting documentation. There are so many, I don't know which do or don't. I don't know about "stock markets" but I've seen courses there in every other area you list. (granted they change all the time depending on interest)
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If you're into computer/IT/programming tech type book Packt Publishing offers a different free title each day...

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning


Also may be of interest...
http://www.sciencebooksonline.info
Hi, everyone, and many thanks for the links so far,
My Kobo finally has arrived, and I started with the Fiction (Science) section in the Kobo library. There are about a good 100 free books I'll start with.
The link mentioned in the quote above, also looked very good to me!

I'll bookmark this thread, and will look again later, when I've gone through most of the free ebooks on their site.

I also will try to look on MobileRead's library when I have the time, though sorting through the many books posted here will be quite an amount of work.
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