As I was reviewing the posts from this week’s OLDaily blog, I can across something that I did not know existed: open access free textbooks. In this entry, he gives the link to a physics textbook written by a gentleman who is very passionate by the topic (over 1,500 pages to date). So now I am out to see if there are any math books I can use, and will post whatever I find. It could solve the dilemma that some of us are facing next year with textbook adoption woes and budget cuts, plus, I have only seen one textbook in math that I would adopt and use (CORD mathematics), but of course, it is expensive.

Addendum:  Here is the most prolific list so far.

http://www.freeloadpress.com/booklist.aspx

And here’s one for math:

http://www.totallyfreemath.com/math.html

I haven’t had a chance to review any of them yet, but I was excited to get the information out there to those who are interested.  Comments and feedback are welcome!