Free textbooks master post.
UPDATED WITH A FEW NEW LINKS AND A REDDIT POST
Awhile back I ran through the tumblr tag looking for all the links for free textbooks. Here is my compiled list. Hopefully someone out there might find this list useful. Some of the links also provide free fiction books, and I think one of them isn’t free, but sell books at a cheaper price. Also, please don’t ask me how to use them, if you need an account, ect. I’m just compiling a list.
WARNING: I CANNOT VOUCH FOR ANY OF THESE WEBSITES SUCH AS THEM BEING A SCAM OR INFECTED OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT. USE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION. (I am simply going off the goodwill of other tumblr users; and apologies in advance if there are repeats)
Edit, now that i am an an actually uni student, i realise this is actually not that useful. some links are dead, and some actually lead to places you can rent/purchase. Give it a shot but take it with a pinch of salt. Best of luck to you guys out there.
I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.
It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.
Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.
It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.
Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.
Image of part of a stellar remnant whose explosion was recorded in 185 AD. By studying this remnant in detail, a team of astronomers was able to solve the mystery of the Milky Way’s super-efficient particle accelerators. The team shows that the shock wave visible in this area is very efficient at accelerating particles and the energy used in this process matches the number of cosmic rays observed on Earth.