Free Learning and Reading

There are a lot of free learning and reading resources on the web. Please share these resources by posting on this network. Here are a few examples to get you started.

1. Google Books
Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you. Read the Google Books Settlement Agreement for more details of how this works.

2. Scribd
Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents. On Scribd, you can quickly and easily turn nearly any file—including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel—into a Web document and share it with the world.

Scribd is breaking down barriers to the publishing process, making written works available to people on the Web and mobile devices, and most importantly, fueling the conversations happening around them.

Documents published on Scribd are accessible to Scribd's community of readers, indexed by search engines, and easily embedded and shared on thousands of other Websites, including Twitter and Facebook. Many leading media companies and businesses distribute content through Scribd, including The New York Times, Ford Motor Company, Simon & Schuster, O'Reilly, World Bank, Chicago Tribune, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and more.

3. Librarian Chick
This search portal is maintained by Stacy Reed. It is a collection of links to the best of the Internet's FREE resources for those with big brains and small pocketbooks!