r/textbook↗
Textbooks For Students
Best place to find college textbooks! Share yours and request from others. Ideally they should be free or cheap! (Not full price etc). See 1st post for all amazing links to download PDF and ePub ebooks/etextbooks. /r/TextBook is now Online. Hope it helps you save money for other things to use at college :)
47k subscribers2,194 posts / mo in Sep 20261,883 authors / mosince 2011
r/textbook has 47k members (+28% over the last 12 months). It gets about 2,194 posts a month from 1,883 people. Top topics: Free Textbooks and Book Requests and Identification.
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