I'm a big fan of ebooks for a couple of reasons: they cut on paper, there are lots of FREE ones available and you can easily build them into classrooms.
I remember a few courses in high school where the copies of the books we were reading were worn, written in, garbage. That doesn't need to be the case anymore. A pdf or word document with the same information is just as good (if not better) than a hard copy. Not to mention that you can have infinite copies, store 100s on a flash drive or even read them on new ebook readers like the Kindle (I do not have one).
Here's the most recent resource brought to my attention by FreeTech4Teachers.com (an invaluable resource for teachers).
This site has over 1600 ebooks covering all sorts of subjects. Most of the books seem to be geared towards high school level or higher, but there are some that might fit for lower grades.
Here's a screen shot of the vast array of content areas available:
Note that some books are PDF while others are Word documents (this info is clearly labeled on the download page).
I found some great books I've downloaded to look at later, including Cory Doctorow's Content which looks/sounds pretty cool and interesting.
Here are some other posts with links to free ebooks and text books on the web:
- 200+ free math books
- 701 elearning tips
- free moodle text book
- Flat World Knowledge - note that this site recently released their first open text books. Check the site for more info.
- Wikibooks
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