Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Free Text Books

I stumbled upon a site offering free text books for high school subjects, including A Levels, O Levels and IGCSE. I'd been looking for ebooks designed for IGCSE courses that my granddaughter will be studying when she enters Grade 10 in July. I found text books for five of the courses that she is studying: English, Mathematics, Business Studies, ICT and Modern History. Unfortunately, these textbooks are not from Cambridge University Press as the school requires but are instead from Hodder Education. They seem just as good and are free, as opposed to paying A$40 to A$50 each for the school mandated books. Here is the URL: https://www.gceguide.xyz/e-books


In a country like Indonesia where the cost of these sorts of text books is very burdensome, it seems perverse to require parents to expend hundreds of dollars when perfectly acceptable, free alternatives are available. Admittedly, the books are not paper copies but it would still be cheaper to ask parents to buy a cheap tablet on which to read the ebooks. One advantage is that students would then not have to lug around heavy textbooks in their backpacks.

Nonetheless, it is useful to me because I found a number of A level Mathematics textbooks that I've now downloaded and added to my already extensive collection of e-textbooks. For example, this advanced level Statistics textbook should be helpful as I'm currently embarked on a revision of this topic.

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