LibreTexts Reviews

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LibreTexts mentions (16)

• Ask HN: Great resources for university calculus/physics?

  The books recommended all look expensive, so not for dabbling. 2. A quick search turned up a bunch of free resources that look helpful: LibreTexts ( https://libretexts.org ). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Re-learning organic chemistry

  There are open-source textbooks available free as pdfs from openstax.org and libretexts.org I can't speak to the organic ones, but the general and analytical texts are as good as any hardcover text. Source: 11 months ago

• How bad will chem textbooks from 2005 be?

  You can also get more up to date, peer reviewed texts as free pdfs from openstax.org or libretexts.org. Source: about 1 year ago

• Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams

  PROMPT: Use the following sources to cite information: Https://chem.libretexts.org/ Https://libretexts.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• “Your order is ready for pickup” College bookstore cancelled three of the four textbooks I bought for this semester. Semester starts tomorrow and I won’t have the books I need.

  Https://libretexts.org/ might help. Source: over 1 year ago

Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 6 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 8 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 8 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 9 months ago