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Free online textbooks. You can customize them once you sign up for a free educators account. It may take up to several days to be approved.

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hey're free, they're customizable, and they meet state standards.

Those are the three biggest selling points of CK12 Flexbooks, digital educational content for K-12 schools.

FlexBooks are developed through a combination of author donations, licensing partnerships, university collaborations, and incentives for community-based authorship, and teachers can customize them to their hearts' content.

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12.

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

An anti-textbook rant

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.

Wow. Don't tools like this have REAL potential to change the classroom?

CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner's learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.

The full text of almost every single selection from the textbook Holt Elements of Literature Fourth Course.

not sure how this one's legal, but my 10th grade English teachers LOVE it!