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24 alternatives to An Open-Source Solution to Expensive Textbooks
Textyard is an open-source platform launched in 2012 that addresses the high cost of educational textbooks. It enables students and educators to access, create, and share freely available course materials. The solution… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Open-Source Solution to Expensive Textbooks launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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An open source tool for context-aware digital textbooks
2015 · hypersay.com · its alternatives →
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BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
2022 · bookstackapp.com · its alternatives →
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The textbook marketplace for the 21st century
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · textframe.app · its alternatives →
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Alcamy▲550Free, open self-learning platform. Learn & teach anything.
2017 · alcamy.org · its alternatives →
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2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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I've been working on Lurnby for 2 years. It's kind of like a mix of pocket + kindle + anki. It lets you => add add epubs, pdfs, and web articles to the app => highlight and add comments => tag and organize highlights => review them with a spaced repetition system Today I made the decision to open source the project. I'm passionate about helping other people learn to learn better and hope that this will allow a lot more innovation in the tool and the space. I'm very new to open source and development in general really, but looking forward to receiving the guidance of the community.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Education platform for high school students
2021 · opensourcecollage.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the last 12 months, I have been building https://learnawesome.org This idea came from Danny Hillis' 2012 talk at OSCON, which itself was inspired from Neal Stepehenson's _The Diamond Age : A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_ The dream is to build a tool that matches the right learning material to the right student at the right time. Wikipedia is great, but it doesn't do a good job of leveraging the rich variety of learning resources that exist on the Web. Same applies to GoodReads - which is focused only on books, whereas these days we actually learn from videos,…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension to easily surface cheaper textbooks
2015 · occupythebookstore.com · its alternatives →
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The world's first 'fully' open source book
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · textblob.readthedocs.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! For the last 8 months we've been working on leaflet.pub, a web app for making delightful documents. We're trying to strike a balance between Notion and Google Docs — very fast, ultralight and easy to share, but also supporting rich blocks and multiple pages. Weirdly, none of the many notetaking/document apps that we could find hit this combination, so we made Leaflet. With it you can: - Instantly create a doc, without an account - Share read and edit links - Sign-in with email to sync your docs to different devices - Add rich blocks, like canvases, subpages, rsvps, and polls It's…
2025 · its alternatives →
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OpenVC Decks▲264A free DocSend alternative to share your deck with investors
2024 · openvc.app · its alternatives →
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Sutle▲104Save and organize resources into a directed learning path.
2021 · sutle.io · its alternatives →
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The textbook marketplace for the 21st century.
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Open Notebook▲144Open Notebook is a tool where you can upload your own sources - PDFs (textbooks, research papers), Github repos, documentation websites, and other URLs. Once uploaded, you can either chat with an AI about them or run “apps” on top of those sources. Apps can be anything. Right now, I’ve built the following: - turn articles into short video overviews - create a mind map of the source - create summaries or other reports about the source - generate quizzes or flashcards to help study the source You can also remix existing apps or create one from scratch. I built this because I wanted to make…
2025 · noodleflow.ai · its alternatives →
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2017 · textnet.io · its alternatives →
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