On Google Books web site not only can you find snippets and previews of all types of books, brand new and older, you can find full views of books as well that are considered public domain. This includes textbooks from the 1800's and early 1900's. I have found that the language from the earliest books may be a little difficult to understand, but they have perfectly wonderful readers and nature study books, history, biographies as well as books encompassing other subjects, all for free to download into a pdf file.
You can view these books right from your computer, or print them out - I recommend just reading them on the computer, or at least just printing out select pages for the student.
Some of my favorites are several books by Emma Serl, the author of Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons. The math books are great, too. (Although, it was called "arithmetic" back in the old days.)
There are also novels by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens.
I think it's interesting just to go and look at the old textbooks, like math textbooks, and see how advanced they were. I have found that more difficult concepts are introduced at an earlier age in the older books compared to today's textbooks. What do you think?
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