Course materials

The study notes for your exact course, shared by the students who took it

Notes, study guides, practice sets, handouts and slides, organized by school and course. Upload what helped you learn and get paid a cent a page every time another student reads it.

Uploading takes an email address, not an account. Over 14,000 institutions are already listed.

How it works

Three steps, and the loop pays for itself

01

Find your course

Search by school, then by course code or title. Over 14,000 institutions are listed, including nearly every accredited US college and university. If your course is missing, you add it as you upload.

02

Read

Every material shows its first page free, so you know what you are getting. Opening it costs its page count in page views, once. After that it is yours to reread forever at no cost.

03

Share

Upload your own notes. Once a person at Bookface approves them, you earn one page view for every page — and a cent a page, paid to you, every time another student reads them. There is no limit on how much you can earn.

Page views

One page view reads one page

Page views are the only currency here. You earn them by contributing and by shopping, or you buy them at a cent a page. Open a material once and you can reread it forever without spending again.

Page views never expire.
The first page of every material is a free preview.
Anything you upload yourself is always free for you to read.
Openly licensed material in the library, such as OpenStax textbooks, is free to read.
Page views are reading capacity, not keys. Spend them on whatever you like.
How page views work
How you earn themYou get
Upload material that gets approved1 per page, no limit
Place a purchase or rental order on Bookface10 per order
Or buy them — a cent a page
$5
500 pages
$10
1,000 pages
$20
2,000 pages
$50
5,000 pages
For example

Upload a 40-page set of notes, get them approved, and you have 40 page views — enough to read a 40-page study guide from another course. Or rent one textbook, and the 10 page views from that order read a 10-page problem set. And every time someone reads those 40 pages, you earn 40 cents.

Earning money

Your notes pay you every time they are read

Page views are what you spend. Money is what your uploads make. Each time a student opens something you shared, you earn a cent for every page of it — whether they paid for their page views, earned them from an order, or earned them by uploading. Upload 40 pages, get read 60 times, and that is 2,400 pages read: $24.00 to you.

A cent a page, every time someone reads your upload for the first time. Rereads are free for them and page one is a free preview.
Paid monthly, on the 1st, once your balance reaches $10. Below that it carries over.
By ACH, Apple Pay, Cash App, PayPal, Venmo or Zelle — you choose, on your Earnings page.
A read counts toward a payout 30 days after it happens. There is no limit on what you can earn.
Try the arithmetic
40 pages × 60 reads = 2,400 pages read
$24.00
to you, at a cent a page

Uploading

No account needed. Just an email address.

Pick your school and course, choose the file, give it a title and a type, tick one honor-code confirmation. That is the whole form. We email you when the review is done, with a link that finishes your account in one click so you can collect the page views it earned. They wait for you and never expire.

Uploaders are anonymous. No name, handle, or account is ever shown on a material.
Your file is stored exactly as you send it. We never alter its content, add anything to its pages, or change its properties.
Up to 50 MB and 300 pages. Anything that is not a PDF is converted to one for reading.
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Reading

Everything you read lives in your account

Reading takes a Bookface account — the same one you shop with. Your page views, bookmarks and reading history sit in its Course materials section.

Read in the browser

Materials open in a viewer, page by page. Nothing to install.

Bookmark for later

Save anything you find now and come back to it the week it matters.

Rate what you read

Ratings help the best notes for a course surface in search for the next student.

One place for all of it

Your dashboard holds your page views, uploads, bookmarks and everything you have read.

Your notes already helped one student. Let them help the next.

A semester of notes takes a minute to share, costs nothing, earns a page view for every page once it is approved, and pays you a cent a page every time a student reads it.

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