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19 book listings on the Books page grouped under X by catalog listing title (a leading “The”, “A” or “An” is skipped): 15 to read here on RedLectern and 4 linking to a free copy at its source. Grouped under 5 departments. Every book listing has a free copy; how free copies are found and checked.

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Computer Science

1 book

xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system (RISC-V version) Free · open license ↗
Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris · 2024 revision
Free copy at github.com · Open license — can be shared (MIT-style permissive license)
Not cited by an MIT OpenCourseWare course; from RedLectern’s own list of free books.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1 book

xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system Free to read ↗
Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris · September 2025
Free copy at pdos.csail.mit.edu · Free to read at the source (no open license stated)
Not cited by an MIT OpenCourseWare course; from RedLectern’s own list of free books.

Nuclear Science and Engineering

1 book

X-ray Scattering Free to read ↗
Alicia Esther Ares (ed.) · 2017
Free copy at intechopen.com · Free to read at the source (no open license stated)
Not cited by an MIT OpenCourseWare course; from RedLectern’s own list of free books.

Political Science

1 book

Xinjiang Year Zero Free to read ↗
Darren Byler; Ivan Franceschini; Nicholas Loubere, eds. · 2021
Free copy at press.anu.edu.au · Free to read at the source (no open license stated)
Not cited by an MIT OpenCourseWare course; from RedLectern’s own list of free books.

Books grouped under X

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